The PowerPolitics project has created new development education materials to meet this need, working closely with five schools in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City and partnering with two schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Pupils and teachers have been at the heart of developing the new materials, creating films and comic strips to bring to life the differences and similarities in their day to day lives, and to provoke debate and discussion about the opportunities and challenges that living alongside the oil and gas industry can bring.
For more information and education materials, please visit http://www.powerpolitics.org.uk/
The film 'Oil Spills: who's to blame?' Features SolaAbulu, Shell's International Relations Manager for Nigeria, who flew in especially from The Hague to feature in a Question Time style debate that pupils from Ellon Academy arranged as part of theirPower Politics workshop. In Ellon we worked with a group of S2 Modern Studies pupils, to try and unpick issues of governance and corporate social responsibility in the Niger Delta. She is followed by a short piece from John Campbell, a member of the WEA's Tea and Talk group, discussing his time working offshore in Scotland and West Africa and how different the two operating environments were. The final speaker is Chinotu George, a Nigerian student who is doing a PhD in geology at Aberdeen University. He and other members of the Nigerian ResearchGroup at the Centre for Sustainable International Development, Aberdeen University, participated in the community strand of the project. We wanted to gather first-hand reports of how life in Scotland and Nigeria differed, and how oil had affected the different countries.
Several Nigerian students shared their insights, and these have formed the basis for several of the Power Politics films.

published:26 Feb 2014

views:171

A group of more than 40,000 Nigerian villagers are appealing against a UK High Court ruling over their case against Royal Dutch Shell for oil spills. In January the villagers were told to sue the oil giant's Nigerian subsidiary in the West African country but they say their chances of getting justice and compensation are greater in the UK. We speak to King of Ogale, NigeriaHis Royal Highness Emere GodwinBebe Okpabi.
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published:22 Nov 2017

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Presentation: Derek Thomson. Editorial team: JulienPain, SophiePilgrim, Ségolène Malterre, Tatiana El Khoury.
STORY 1 : NIGERIA
We start with oil spills... Not the latest one in the Gulf of Mexico - but the regular spills that take place in West Africa, in the Niger delta... where they've been happening for nearly 50 years. The biggest foreign oil company in the region is Shell. They say 90 percent of the spills come from sabotage by local guerrilla groups. But that's not what our Observer says.
Observer : Nnimmo Bassey.
STORY 2 : UNITED STATESNext we go to the United States, the hot and dry southwest. It's summer, meaning wildfire season. Our next Observer had the bad luck to live just a few hundred meters from one of the fires, probably started by a careless camper.
Observer : Charlie McCallie.
STORY 3 : LEBANON
Now to Beirut, Lebanon. It's a cosmopolitan city... When people get together, they'll say "Hi.. kifak? ça va?" Hello in three different languages. So does this mean their beautiful Arabic is in danger? That's what our Observer says. We head to the Lebanese capital.
Observer : Suzanne Talhouk, a language activist.

Across the world fish stocks are in decline. 90% of all commercial stocks are now overexploited or fully exploited and the pressure from the fishing industry is increasing. West Africa is facing a crisis, fish stocks are in free fall. The livelihood of generations to come will depend on the fish of these oceans.

published:05 May 2017

views:155

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets
Two million more barrels of West African oil are expected to sail to India as part of an IOC tender while U.S. crude appears to be displacing Nigerian crude in several markets, Reuters reports. Total won a tender to supply India’s IOC with oil loading April 1-10. The company was likely to supply a 2 million barrel VLCC, but the grades included were not immediately clear. Results of a tender from Indonesia’s Pertamina for oil to be delivered in May/June were expected on Friday. Nigerian cargoes r...

published:10 Feb 2018

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VICE returns to the Niger Delta, the heart of Nigeria's oil production, to see the battle raging for control of oil.
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published:07 Sep 2017

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An oil spill off South Africa's west coast is forcing the world's largest colony of African penguins to be temporarily moved from their homes.
Their destination is Cape Town, about 60 miles away, where hundreds
of volunteers are cleaning the penguins who were unlucky enough to get caught in the spill.
Conservation officials in the area have underlined the pressing need to protect the species from extinction.
This stunning South African coastline has been spoiled by an oil slick from a tanker that sank near Cape Town a week ago.
The penguins most at threat are those that nest on Dassen Island, a sandy, barren outcrop off South Africa's west coast.
Conservation officials say between three and six thousand penguins are being evacuated from Dassen Island's nature reserve .
The island is home to about 55-thousand African penguins.
This is a wildlife rescue on a massive scale.
Hundreds of volunteers have joined in the operation to remove the penguins from the danger zone.
Critics have condemned the oil spill as yet another example of human disregard for the ecosystem.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And really what we need now is that we need man to realize that this species has been hammered enough, we've got to now start working on the side of the species and ensure that it does actually survive into the next century."
SUPERCAPTION: Dr Ian Macdonald, Managing DirectorWWF
The birds are being placed in ventilated boxes so that they may be moved as quickly as possible.
Here the birds were being prepared to be shipped to the mainland.
They will then be trucked about 560 miles down the coast to this temporary site where they are being released.
Dassen Island Reserve Manager said that the rescue was concentrating its efforts on adult penguins in order to secure that the species breeds as soon as possible.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Unfortunately we having to leave the youngsters and its just from a conservation perspective we have to focus all our energy and resources on catching healthy adult birds which are going to return and start feeding immediately, and the population will hopefully be bought up over time much more quickly with the adult birds than if we had to wait three or four years for the juveniles or young birds to start breeding.
SUPERCAPTION: Anton Wolfaardt, Dassen Island Reserve Manager
There are plenty of ruffled feathers here but the penguins are in caring hands.
The penguins are expected to swim home in about eleven days.
Authorities hope that'll be enough time to clean up the spill from
a tanker, which sank near Cape Town last week.
The penguins may not like their temporary home but when they are returned to Dassen Island the birds will be able to swim and fish in the sea in safety.
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http://blog.amnestyusa.org/tag/shell-oil/
Gas flaring happens when oil is pumped out of the ground, producing gas. The gas is separated out and, in Nigeria, is usually burnt as waste. This practice, combined with numerous oil spills, has left communities in the Niger Delta with little option but to drink polluted water, eat contaminated fish, farm on spoiled land and breathe in air that smells of oil and gas. It also makes a mockery of Shells much-flaunted business principles.
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History

The history of West Africa can be divided into five major periods: first, its prehistory, in which the first human settlers arrived, developed agriculture, and made contact with peoples to the north; the second, the Iron Age empires that consolidated both intra-African, and extra-African trade, and developed centralized states; third, Major polities flourished, which would undergo an extensive history of contact with non-Africans; fourth, the colonial period, in which Great Britain and France controlled nearly the whole of the region; fifth, the post-independence era, in which the current nations were formed.

Dassen Island

Dassen Island is an uninhabited South African island in the Atlantic Ocean. It is situated about 10km (6mi) west of Yzerfontein and 55km (34mi) north of Cape Town. The flat and low-lying island measures about 3.1km (1.9mi) long northwest-southeast and 1km (0.6mi) wide, with an area of 2.73km2 (1.05sqmi). It is a proclaimed nature reserve.

In Dutch the word "dassie" means (approximately) "rock-rabbit", the plural being "dassen" and the island is named after the colonies of hyraxes (Procavia capensis) encountered there by the discoverers. Named Ilha Branca ('white island') by the early Portuguese mariners, it was renamed Elizabeth Eiland by Joris van Spilbergen in 1601. The form Dasseneiland (Dutch/Afrikaans) is preferred for official purposes.

The island is underpinned by a fine-grained tourmaline granite, with a few zones of biotite granite. The intrusive rocks (late Precambrian) are in part covered by sand. Along much of the shoreline large, rounded boulders protrude from the sand to heights just above the high water mark. Although temporary pans form during the wet season (winter) in the interior, there is in general little fresh water on the island.

South Africa is a multiethnic society encompassing a wide variety of cultures, languages, and religions. Its pluralistic makeup is reflected in the constitution's recognition of 11 official languages, which is among the highest number of any country in the world. Two of these languages are of European origin: Afrikaans developed from Dutch and serves as the first language of most white and coloured South Africans; English reflects the legacy of British colonialism, and is commonly used in public and commercial life, though it is fourth-ranked as a spoken first language.

Oil operations in West Africa by Peter Clutterbuck

Oil spills: who's to blame?

The PowerPolitics project has created new development education materials to meet this need, working closely with five schools in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City and partnering with two schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Pupils and teachers have been at the heart of developing the new materials, creating films and comic strips to bring to life the differences and similarities in their day to day lives, and to provoke debate and discussion about the opportunities and challenges that living alongside the oil and gas industry can bring.
For more information and education materials, please visit http://www.powerpolitics.org.uk/
The film 'Oil Spills: who's to blame?' Features SolaAbulu, Shell's International Relations Manager for Nigeria, who flew in especially from The Hague to feature in a Question Time style debate that pupils from Ellon Academy arranged as part of theirPower Politics workshop. In Ellon we worked with a group of S2 Modern Studies pupils, to try and unpick issues of governance and corporate social responsibility in the Niger Delta. She is followed by a short piece from John Campbell, a member of the WEA's Tea and Talk group, discussing his time working offshore in Scotland and West Africa and how different the two operating environments were. The final speaker is Chinotu George, a Nigerian student who is doing a PhD in geology at Aberdeen University. He and other members of the Nigerian ResearchGroup at the Centre for Sustainable International Development, Aberdeen University, participated in the community strand of the project. We wanted to gather first-hand reports of how life in Scotland and Nigeria differed, and how oil had affected the different countries.
Several Nigerian students shared their insights, and these have formed the basis for several of the Power Politics films.

A group of more than 40,000 Nigerian villagers are appealing against a UK High Court ruling over their case against Royal Dutch Shell for oil spills. In January the villagers were told to sue the oil giant's Nigerian subsidiary in the West African country but they say their chances of getting justice and compensation are greater in the UK. We speak to King of Ogale, NigeriaHis Royal Highness Emere GodwinBebe Okpabi.
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4:58

THIS WEEK: Nigeria's permanent oil slick

THIS WEEK: Nigeria's permanent oil slick

THIS WEEK: Nigeria's permanent oil slick

Presentation: Derek Thomson. Editorial team: JulienPain, SophiePilgrim, Ségolène Malterre, Tatiana El Khoury.
STORY 1 : NIGERIA
We start with oil spills... Not the latest one in the Gulf of Mexico - but the regular spills that take place in West Africa, in the Niger delta... where they've been happening for nearly 50 years. The biggest foreign oil company in the region is Shell. They say 90 percent of the spills come from sabotage by local guerrilla groups. But that's not what our Observer says.
Observer : Nnimmo Bassey.
STORY 2 : UNITED STATESNext we go to the United States, the hot and dry southwest. It's summer, meaning wildfire season. Our next Observer had the bad luck to live just a few hundred meters from one of the fires, probably started by a careless camper.
Observer : Charlie McCallie.
STORY 3 : LEBANON
Now to Beirut, Lebanon. It's a cosmopolitan city... When people get together, they'll say "Hi.. kifak? ça va?" Hello in three different languages. So does this mean their beautiful Arabic is in danger? That's what our Observer says. We head to the Lebanese capital.
Observer : Suzanne Talhouk, a language activist.

OIL SPILL RESPONSE AND PREVENTION IN WEST AFRICA ONYEABOR SAMSON

West Africa - Overfishing

Across the world fish stocks are in decline. 90% of all commercial stocks are now overexploited or fully exploited and the pressure from the fishing industry is increasing. West Africa is facing a crisis, fish stocks are in free fall. The livelihood of generations to come will depend on the fish of these oceans.

1:20

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets
Two million more barrels of West African oil are expected to sail to India as part of an IOC tender while U.S. crude appears to be displacing Nigerian crude in several markets, Reuters reports. Total won a tender to supply India’s IOC with oil loading April 1-10. The company was likely to supply a 2 million barrel VLCC, but the grades included were not immediately clear. Results of a tender from Indonesia’s Pertamina for oil to be delivered in May/June were expected on Friday. Nigerian cargoes r...

1:48

Nigeria Dirty Oil Fact Trailer | VICE on HBO

Nigeria Dirty Oil Fact Trailer | VICE on HBO

Nigeria Dirty Oil Fact Trailer | VICE on HBO

VICE returns to the Niger Delta, the heart of Nigeria's oil production, to see the battle raging for control of oil.
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2:37

SOUTH AFRICA: OIL SPILL & PENGUIN COLONY LATEST (2)

SOUTH AFRICA: OIL SPILL & PENGUIN COLONY LATEST (2)

SOUTH AFRICA: OIL SPILL & PENGUIN COLONY LATEST (2)

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An oil spill off South Africa's west coast is forcing the world's largest colony of African penguins to be temporarily moved from their homes.
Their destination is Cape Town, about 60 miles away, where hundreds
of volunteers are cleaning the penguins who were unlucky enough to get caught in the spill.
Conservation officials in the area have underlined the pressing need to protect the species from extinction.
This stunning South African coastline has been spoiled by an oil slick from a tanker that sank near Cape Town a week ago.
The penguins most at threat are those that nest on Dassen Island, a sandy, barren outcrop off South Africa's west coast.
Conservation officials say between three and six thousand penguins are being evacuated from Dassen Island's nature reserve .
The island is home to about 55-thousand African penguins.
This is a wildlife rescue on a massive scale.
Hundreds of volunteers have joined in the operation to remove the penguins from the danger zone.
Critics have condemned the oil spill as yet another example of human disregard for the ecosystem.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And really what we need now is that we need man to realize that this species has been hammered enough, we've got to now start working on the side of the species and ensure that it does actually survive into the next century."
SUPERCAPTION: Dr Ian Macdonald, Managing DirectorWWF
The birds are being placed in ventilated boxes so that they may be moved as quickly as possible.
Here the birds were being prepared to be shipped to the mainland.
They will then be trucked about 560 miles down the coast to this temporary site where they are being released.
Dassen Island Reserve Manager said that the rescue was concentrating its efforts on adult penguins in order to secure that the species breeds as soon as possible.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Unfortunately we having to leave the youngsters and its just from a conservation perspective we have to focus all our energy and resources on catching healthy adult birds which are going to return and start feeding immediately, and the population will hopefully be bought up over time much more quickly with the adult birds than if we had to wait three or four years for the juveniles or young birds to start breeding.
SUPERCAPTION: Anton Wolfaardt, Dassen Island Reserve Manager
There are plenty of ruffled feathers here but the penguins are in caring hands.
The penguins are expected to swim home in about eleven days.
Authorities hope that'll be enough time to clean up the spill from
a tanker, which sank near Cape Town last week.
The penguins may not like their temporary home but when they are returned to Dassen Island the birds will be able to swim and fish in the sea in safety.
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3:19

Bonga Oil Spill:SNEPCO Mgt. apologises,promises full scale review

Bonga Oil Spill:SNEPCO Mgt. apologises,promises full scale review

Bonga Oil Spill:SNEPCO Mgt. apologises,promises full scale review

Shell Oil: Human rights go up in flames

http://blog.amnestyusa.org/tag/shell-oil/
Gas flaring happens when oil is pumped out of the ground, producing gas. The gas is separated out and, in Nigeria, is usually burnt as waste. This practice, combined with numerous oil spills, has left communities in the Niger Delta with little option but to drink polluted water, eat contaminated fish, farm on spoiled land and breathe in air that smells of oil and gas. It also makes a mockery of Shells much-flaunted business principles.
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1:25

Oil workers in Nigeria give government 14 days to address their concerns

Oil workers in Nigeria give government 14 days to address their concerns

Oil workers in Nigeria give government 14 days to address their concerns

Workers from the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas have threatened to go on strike. They have given the government 14 days to address their concerns. Labour union leaders claim many workers still lack proper severance pay packages after being laid off. Nigeria is one of Africa's largest oil producers. From Abuja here's Sophia Adengo with more.
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2:21

Shell Oil - The Awful Truth

Shell Oil - The Awful Truth

Shell Oil - The Awful Truth

http://www.protectthehuman.com/shell
Shell Nigeria is one of the largest oil producers in the Royal Dutch/ShellGroup. 80% of the oil extraction in Nigeria is in the Niger Delta, the southeast region of the country. The Delta is home to many small minority ethnic groups, including the Ogoni, all of which suffer egregious exploitation by multinational oil companies, like Shell. Shell provides over 50% of the income keeping the Nigerian dictatorship in power.
Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook. Shell has done next to nothing to help Ogoni. By 1996, Shell employed only 88 Ogoni (0.0002% of the Ogoni population, and only 2% of Shell's employees in Nigeria). Ogoni villages have no clean water, electricity, abysmal health care, no jobs for displaced farmers and fisher persons and face the effects of unrestrained environmental molestation by Shell everyday.
Since Shell began drilling oil in Ogoniland in 1958, the people of Ogoniland have had pipelines built across their farmlands and in front of their homes, suffered endemic oil leaks from these very pipelines, been forced to live with the constant flaring of gas. This environmental assault has smothered land with oil, killed masses of fish and other aquatic life, and introduced devastating acid rain to the land of the Ogoni. For the Ogoni, a people dependent upon farming and fishing, the poisoning of the land and water has had devastating economic and health consequences. Shell claims to clean up its oil spills, but such "clean-ups" consist of techniques like burning the crude which results in a permanent layer of crusted oil metres thick and scooping oil into holes dug in surrounding earth.
Both Shell and the government admit that Shell contributes to the funding of the military in the Delta region. Under the auspices of "protecting" Shell from peaceful demonstrators in the village of Umeuchem (10 miles from Ogoni), the police killed 80 people, destroyed houses and vital crops. Shell conceded it twice paid the military for going to specific villages. Although it disputes that the purpose of these excursions was to quiet dissent, each of the military missions paid for by Shell resulted in Ogoni fatalities. Shell has also admitted purchasing weapons for the police force who guard its facilities, and there is growing suspicion that Shell funds a much greater portion of the military than previously admitted.
Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 8 were leaders of MOSOP, the Movement for Survival of the Ogoni People. As outspoken environmental and human rights activists, they declared that Shell was not welcome in Ogoniland. On November 10, 1995, they were hanged after a trial by a special military tribunal (whose decisions cannot be appealed) in the murder of four other Ogoni activists. The defendants' lawyers were harassed and denied access to their clients. Although none of them were near the town where the murders occurred, they were convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that many heads of state strongly condemned for a stunning lack of evidence, unmasked partiality towards the prosecution and the haste of the trial. The executions were carried out a mere eight days after the decision. Two witnesses against the MOSOP leaders admitted that Shell and the military bribed them to testify against Ken Saro-Wiwa with promises of money and jobs at Shell. Ken's final words before his execution were:
"The struggle continues!"

2:25

cleaning oil spills with west texas cotton everythinglubbock com

cleaning oil spills with west texas cotton everythinglubbock com

cleaning oil spills with west texas cotton everythinglubbock com

3:23

SOUTH AFRICA: OIL SPILL & PENGUIN COLONY LATEST

SOUTH AFRICA: OIL SPILL & PENGUIN COLONY LATEST

SOUTH AFRICA: OIL SPILL & PENGUIN COLONY LATEST

English/Nat
An oil spill off South Africa's west coast is forcing the world's largest colony of African penguins to be temporarily moved from their homes.
Their destination is Cape Town, about 60 miles away, where hundreds
of volunteers are cleaning the penguins who were unlucky enough to get caught in the spill.
Conservation officials in the area have underlined the pressing need to protect the species from extinction.
This stunning South African coastline has been spoiled by an oil slick from a tanker that sank near Cape Town a week ago.
The penguins most at threat are those that nest on Dassen Island, a sandy, barren outcrop off South Africa's west coast.
Conservation officials say between three and six thousand penguins are being evacuated from Dassen Island's nature reserve .
The island is home to about 55-thousand African penguins.
This is a wildlife rescue on a massive scale.
Hundreds of volunteers have joined in the operation to remove the penguins from the danger zone.
Critics have condemned the oil spill as yet another example of human disregard for the ecosystem.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And really what we need now is that we need man to realize that this species has been hammered enough, we've got to now start working on the side of the species and ensure that it does actually survive into the next century."
SUPERCAPTION: Dr Ian Macdonald, Managing DirectorWWF
The birds are being placed in ventilated boxes so that they may be moved as quickly as possible.
Here the birds were being prepared to be shipped to the mainland.
They will then be trucked about 560 miles down the coast to this temporary site where they are being released.
Dassen Island Reserve Manager said that the rescue was concentrating its efforts on adult penguins in order to secure that the species breeds as soon as possible.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Unfortunately we having to leave the youngsters and its just from a conservation perspective we have to focus all our energy and resources on catching healthy adult birds which are going to return and start feeding immediately, and the population will hopefully be bought up over time much more quickly with the adult birds than if we had to wait three or four years for the juveniles or young birds to start breeding.
SUPERCAPTION: Anton Wolfaardt, Dassen Island Reserve Manager
There are plenty of ruffled feathers here but the penguins are in caring hands.
The penguins are expected to swim home in about eleven days.
Authorities hope that'll be enough time to clean up the spill from
a tanker, which sank near Cape Town last week.
The penguins may not like their temporary home but when they are returned to Dassen Island the birds will be able to swim and fish in the sea in safety.
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3:13

Fight continues for Nigeria oil spill victims

Fight continues for Nigeria oil spill victims

Fight continues for Nigeria oil spill victims

BP has said again and again that it will cover the costs of cleaning up its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But away from the cameras, thousands in the Niger Delta, continue to battle for any compensation from numerous oil spills. Yvonne Ndege reports on the legal battle against foreign oil companies from the southern state of Bayelsa (8 June 2010).

13:36

Oilserve positions itself as a major oil/gas player in Nigeria

Oilserve positions itself as a major oil/gas player in Nigeria

Oilserve positions itself as a major oil/gas player in Nigeria

Oilserv, is a Nigerian servicing company with notable achievements in engineering, procurement and construction in the Oil & Gas space. It is using state of the art technology to build pipelines across West Africa. Corporate access opens a window to the company handling the biggest gas pipeline installation in Nigeria. CNBCAFRICA’s Onyi Sunday reports.

2:21

Why Is Transporting Oil So Dangerous?

Why Is Transporting Oil So Dangerous?

Why Is Transporting Oil So Dangerous?

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Transporting oil by rail has come under scrutiny after the recent explosions near residential communities in Virginia and Ontario. So, how dangerous are oil trains?
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Accidents Surge as Oil IndustryTakes the Train
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Canadian runaway oil train disaster blamed on 'weak safety culture,' poor oversight
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"The runaway train that exploded in a small Quebec village last year, killing 47 people, was operated by a small regional railroad that cut corners on safety to save money, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said in its final report on the incident."
Spilled Oil Keeps FlamesBurning After a Train Derailment in West Virginia
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/us/west-virginia-train-derailment-dumps-oil-into-river.html
"A train hauling millions of pounds of crude oil that derailed on Monday was still burning Tuesday night as oil poured from the wreckage."
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2:25

South Africa -Oil Pullution Disaster/Birds

South Africa -Oil Pullution Disaster/Birds

South Africa -Oil Pullution Disaster/Birds

The Atlantic seaboard from Cape Town harbour past Sandy Bay is black with oil in what has been described as the Peninsula's worst oil pollution disaster, SABC news said on Saturday (25/6). An Environmental AffairsDepartment official said the oil bubbling out of a supertanker which was deliberately sunk off the coast 11 years ago is worst-ever ecological disaster Cape Town has ever suffered. Teams from the council cleaning department spent their Saturday physically cleaning up the oil and seabirds covered with oil slick.
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ms. ela voster of south african national conservation of birds
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Oil operations in West Africa by Peter Clutterbuck

Oil spills: who's to blame?

The PowerPolitics project has created new development education materials to meet this need, working closely with five schools in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City and partnering with two schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Pupils and teachers have been at the heart of developing the new materials, creating films and comic strips to bring to life the differences and similarities in their day to day lives, and to provoke debate and discussion about the opportunities and challenges that living alongside the oil and gas industry can bring.
For more information and education materials, please visit http://www.powerpolitics.org.uk/
The film 'Oil Spills: who's to blame?' Features SolaAbulu, Shell's International Relations Manager for Nigeria, who flew in especially from The Hague to feature in a...

A group of more than 40,000 Nigerian villagers are appealing against a UK High Court ruling over their case against Royal Dutch Shell for oil spills. In January the villagers were told to sue the oil giant's Nigerian subsidiary in the West African country but they say their chances of getting justice and compensation are greater in the UK. We speak to King of Ogale, NigeriaHis Royal Highness Emere GodwinBebe Okpabi.
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OIL SPILL RESPONSE AND PREVENTION IN WEST AFRICA ONYEABOR SAMSON

West Africa - Overfishing

Across the world fish stocks are in decline. 90% of all commercial stocks are now overexploited or fully exploited and the pressure from the fishing industry is increasing. West Africa is facing a crisis, fish stocks are in free fall. The livelihood of generations to come will depend on the fish of these oceans.

published: 05 May 2017

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets
Two million more barrels of West African oil are expected to sail to India as part of an IOC tender while U.S. crude appears to be displacing Nigerian crude in several markets, Reuters reports. Total won a tender to supply India’s IOC with oil loading April 1-10. The company was likely to supply a 2 million barrel VLCC, but the grades included were not immediately clear. Results of a tender from Indonesia’s Pertamina for oil to be delivered in May/June were expected on Friday. Nigerian cargoes r...

published: 10 Feb 2018

Nigeria Dirty Oil Fact Trailer | VICE on HBO

VICE returns to the Niger Delta, the heart of Nigeria's oil production, to see the battle raging for control of oil.
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published: 07 Sep 2017

SOUTH AFRICA: OIL SPILL & PENGUIN COLONY LATEST (2)

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An oil spill off South Africa's west coast is forcing the world's largest colony of African penguins to be temporarily moved from their homes.
Their destination is Cape Town, about 60 miles away, where hundreds
of volunteers are cleaning the penguins who were unlucky enough to get caught in the spill.
Conservation officials in the area have underlined the pressing need to protect the species from extinction.
This stunning South African coastline has been spoiled by an oil slick from a tanker that sank near Cape Town a week ago.
The penguins most at threat are those that nest on Dassen Island, a sandy, barren outcrop off South Africa's west coast.
Conservation officials say between three and six thousand penguins are being evacuated from Dassen Island's ...

published: 21 Jul 2015

Bonga Oil Spill:SNEPCO Mgt. apologises,promises full scale review

Shell Oil: Human rights go up in flames

http://blog.amnestyusa.org/tag/shell-oil/
Gas flaring happens when oil is pumped out of the ground, producing gas. The gas is separated out and, in Nigeria, is usually burnt as waste. This practice, combined with numerous oil spills, has left communities in the Niger Delta with little option but to drink polluted water, eat contaminated fish, farm on spoiled land and breathe in air that smells of oil and gas. It also makes a mockery of Shells much-flaunted business principles.
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published: 19 May 2010

Oil workers in Nigeria give government 14 days to address their concerns

Workers from the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas have threatened to go on strike. They have given the government 14 days to address their concerns. Labour union leaders claim many workers still lack proper severance pay packages after being laid off. Nigeria is one of Africa's largest oil producers. From Abuja here's Sophia Adengo with more.
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published: 04 Aug 2017

Shell Oil - The Awful Truth

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Shell Nigeria is one of the largest oil producers in the Royal Dutch/ShellGroup. 80% of the oil extraction in Nigeria is in the Niger Delta, the southeast region of the country. The Delta is home to many small minority ethnic groups, including the Ogoni, all of which suffer egregious exploitation by multinational oil companies, like Shell. Shell provides over 50% of the income keeping the Nigerian dictatorship in power.
Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook. Shell has done next to nothing to help Ogoni. By 1996, Shell employed only 88 Ogoni (0.0002% of the Ogoni population, and only 2% of Shell's employees in ...

published: 21 Feb 2010

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published: 09 Feb 2015

SOUTH AFRICA: OIL SPILL & PENGUIN COLONY LATEST

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An oil spill off South Africa's west coast is forcing the world's largest colony of African penguins to be temporarily moved from their homes.
Their destination is Cape Town, about 60 miles away, where hundreds
of volunteers are cleaning the penguins who were unlucky enough to get caught in the spill.
Conservation officials in the area have underlined the pressing need to protect the species from extinction.
This stunning South African coastline has been spoiled by an oil slick from a tanker that sank near Cape Town a week ago.
The penguins most at threat are those that nest on Dassen Island, a sandy, barren outcrop off South Africa's west coast.
Conservation officials say between three and six thousand penguins are being evacuated from Dassen Island's nat...

published: 21 Jul 2015

Fight continues for Nigeria oil spill victims

BP has said again and again that it will cover the costs of cleaning up its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But away from the cameras, thousands in the Niger Delta, continue to battle for any compensation from numerous oil spills. Yvonne Ndege reports on the legal battle against foreign oil companies from the southern state of Bayelsa (8 June 2010).

published: 08 Jun 2010

Oilserve positions itself as a major oil/gas player in Nigeria

Oilserv, is a Nigerian servicing company with notable achievements in engineering, procurement and construction in the Oil & Gas space. It is using state of the art technology to build pipelines across West Africa. Corporate access opens a window to the company handling the biggest gas pipeline installation in Nigeria. CNBCAFRICA’s Onyi Sunday reports.

South Africa -Oil Pullution Disaster/Birds

The Atlantic seaboard from Cape Town harbour past Sandy Bay is black with oil in what has been described as the Peninsula's worst oil pollution disaster, SABC news said on Saturday (25/6). An Environmental AffairsDepartment official said the oil bubbling out of a supertanker which was deliberately sunk off the coast 11 years ago is worst-ever ecological disaster Cape Town has ever suffered. Teams from the council cleaning department spent their Saturday physically cleaning up the oil and seabirds covered with oil slick.
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ext of sanccob centre
oil-covered seabirds
birds being washed
birds put in rehabilitation pool
birds in holding pen
birds being force fed
birds being tagged
birds herded into pen
more birds being washed
ms. ela voster ...

The PowerPolitics project has created new development education materials to meet this need, working closely with five schools in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City and partnering with two schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Pupils and teachers have been at the heart of developing the new materials, creating films and comic strips to bring to life the differences and similarities in their day to day lives, and to provoke debate and discussion about the opportunities and challenges that living alongside the oil and gas industry can bring.
For more information and education materials, please visit http://www.powerpolitics.org.uk/
The film 'Oil Spills: who's to blame?' Features SolaAbulu, Shell's International Relations Manager for Nigeria, who flew in especially from The Hague to feature in a Question Time style debate that pupils from Ellon Academy arranged as part of theirPower Politics workshop. In Ellon we worked with a group of S2 Modern Studies pupils, to try and unpick issues of governance and corporate social responsibility in the Niger Delta. She is followed by a short piece from John Campbell, a member of the WEA's Tea and Talk group, discussing his time working offshore in Scotland and West Africa and how different the two operating environments were. The final speaker is Chinotu George, a Nigerian student who is doing a PhD in geology at Aberdeen University. He and other members of the Nigerian ResearchGroup at the Centre for Sustainable International Development, Aberdeen University, participated in the community strand of the project. We wanted to gather first-hand reports of how life in Scotland and Nigeria differed, and how oil had affected the different countries.
Several Nigerian students shared their insights, and these have formed the basis for several of the Power Politics films.

The PowerPolitics project has created new development education materials to meet this need, working closely with five schools in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City and partnering with two schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Pupils and teachers have been at the heart of developing the new materials, creating films and comic strips to bring to life the differences and similarities in their day to day lives, and to provoke debate and discussion about the opportunities and challenges that living alongside the oil and gas industry can bring.
For more information and education materials, please visit http://www.powerpolitics.org.uk/
The film 'Oil Spills: who's to blame?' Features SolaAbulu, Shell's International Relations Manager for Nigeria, who flew in especially from The Hague to feature in a Question Time style debate that pupils from Ellon Academy arranged as part of theirPower Politics workshop. In Ellon we worked with a group of S2 Modern Studies pupils, to try and unpick issues of governance and corporate social responsibility in the Niger Delta. She is followed by a short piece from John Campbell, a member of the WEA's Tea and Talk group, discussing his time working offshore in Scotland and West Africa and how different the two operating environments were. The final speaker is Chinotu George, a Nigerian student who is doing a PhD in geology at Aberdeen University. He and other members of the Nigerian ResearchGroup at the Centre for Sustainable International Development, Aberdeen University, participated in the community strand of the project. We wanted to gather first-hand reports of how life in Scotland and Nigeria differed, and how oil had affected the different countries.
Several Nigerian students shared their insights, and these have formed the basis for several of the Power Politics films.

A group of more than 40,000 Nigerian villagers are appealing against a UK High Court ruling over their case against Royal Dutch Shell for oil spills. In January the villagers were told to sue the oil giant's Nigerian subsidiary in the West African country but they say their chances of getting justice and compensation are greater in the UK. We speak to King of Ogale, NigeriaHis Royal Highness Emere GodwinBebe Okpabi.
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Presentation: Derek Thomson. Editorial team: JulienPain, SophiePilgrim, Ségolène Malterre, Tatiana El Khoury.
STORY 1 : NIGERIA
We start with oil spills... Not the latest one in the Gulf of Mexico - but the regular spills that take place in West Africa, in the Niger delta... where they've been happening for nearly 50 years. The biggest foreign oil company in the region is Shell. They say 90 percent of the spills come from sabotage by local guerrilla groups. But that's not what our Observer says.
Observer : Nnimmo Bassey.
STORY 2 : UNITED STATESNext we go to the United States, the hot and dry southwest. It's summer, meaning wildfire season. Our next Observer had the bad luck to live just a few hundred meters from one of the fires, probably started by a careless camper.
Observer : Charlie McCallie.
STORY 3 : LEBANON
Now to Beirut, Lebanon. It's a cosmopolitan city... When people get together, they'll say "Hi.. kifak? ça va?" Hello in three different languages. So does this mean their beautiful Arabic is in danger? That's what our Observer says. We head to the Lebanese capital.
Observer : Suzanne Talhouk, a language activist.

Presentation: Derek Thomson. Editorial team: JulienPain, SophiePilgrim, Ségolène Malterre, Tatiana El Khoury.
STORY 1 : NIGERIA
We start with oil spills... Not the latest one in the Gulf of Mexico - but the regular spills that take place in West Africa, in the Niger delta... where they've been happening for nearly 50 years. The biggest foreign oil company in the region is Shell. They say 90 percent of the spills come from sabotage by local guerrilla groups. But that's not what our Observer says.
Observer : Nnimmo Bassey.
STORY 2 : UNITED STATESNext we go to the United States, the hot and dry southwest. It's summer, meaning wildfire season. Our next Observer had the bad luck to live just a few hundred meters from one of the fires, probably started by a careless camper.
Observer : Charlie McCallie.
STORY 3 : LEBANON
Now to Beirut, Lebanon. It's a cosmopolitan city... When people get together, they'll say "Hi.. kifak? ça va?" Hello in three different languages. So does this mean their beautiful Arabic is in danger? That's what our Observer says. We head to the Lebanese capital.
Observer : Suzanne Talhouk, a language activist.

West Africa - Overfishing

Across the world fish stocks are in decline. 90% of all commercial stocks are now overexploited or fully exploited and the pressure from the fishing industry is...

Across the world fish stocks are in decline. 90% of all commercial stocks are now overexploited or fully exploited and the pressure from the fishing industry is increasing. West Africa is facing a crisis, fish stocks are in free fall. The livelihood of generations to come will depend on the fish of these oceans.

Across the world fish stocks are in decline. 90% of all commercial stocks are now overexploited or fully exploited and the pressure from the fishing industry is increasing. West Africa is facing a crisis, fish stocks are in free fall. The livelihood of generations to come will depend on the fish of these oceans.

published:05 May 2017

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Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets
Two million more barrels of West African oil are expected to sail to India as part of an IOC tender while U.S. crude appears to be displacing Nigerian crude in several markets, Reuters reports. Total won a tender to supply India’s IOC with oil loading April 1-10. The company was likely to supply a 2 million barrel VLCC, but the grades included were not immediately clear. Results of a tender from Indonesia’s Pertamina for oil to be delivered in May/June were expected on Friday. Nigerian cargoes r...

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets
Two million more barrels of West African oil are expected to sail to India as part of an IOC tender while U.S. crude appears to be displacing Nigerian crude in several markets, Reuters reports. Total won a tender to supply India’s IOC with oil loading April 1-10. The company was likely to supply a 2 million barrel VLCC, but the grades included were not immediately clear. Results of a tender from Indonesia’s Pertamina for oil to be delivered in May/June were expected on Friday. Nigerian cargoes r...

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XFA
An oil spill off South Africa's west coast is forcing the world's largest colony of African penguins to be temporarily moved from their homes.
Their destination is Cape Town, about 60 miles away, where hundreds
of volunteers are cleaning the penguins who were unlucky enough to get caught in the spill.
Conservation officials in the area have underlined the pressing need to protect the species from extinction.
This stunning South African coastline has been spoiled by an oil slick from a tanker that sank near Cape Town a week ago.
The penguins most at threat are those that nest on Dassen Island, a sandy, barren outcrop off South Africa's west coast.
Conservation officials say between three and six thousand penguins are being evacuated from Dassen Island's nature reserve .
The island is home to about 55-thousand African penguins.
This is a wildlife rescue on a massive scale.
Hundreds of volunteers have joined in the operation to remove the penguins from the danger zone.
Critics have condemned the oil spill as yet another example of human disregard for the ecosystem.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And really what we need now is that we need man to realize that this species has been hammered enough, we've got to now start working on the side of the species and ensure that it does actually survive into the next century."
SUPERCAPTION: Dr Ian Macdonald, Managing DirectorWWF
The birds are being placed in ventilated boxes so that they may be moved as quickly as possible.
Here the birds were being prepared to be shipped to the mainland.
They will then be trucked about 560 miles down the coast to this temporary site where they are being released.
Dassen Island Reserve Manager said that the rescue was concentrating its efforts on adult penguins in order to secure that the species breeds as soon as possible.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Unfortunately we having to leave the youngsters and its just from a conservation perspective we have to focus all our energy and resources on catching healthy adult birds which are going to return and start feeding immediately, and the population will hopefully be bought up over time much more quickly with the adult birds than if we had to wait three or four years for the juveniles or young birds to start breeding.
SUPERCAPTION: Anton Wolfaardt, Dassen Island Reserve Manager
There are plenty of ruffled feathers here but the penguins are in caring hands.
The penguins are expected to swim home in about eleven days.
Authorities hope that'll be enough time to clean up the spill from
a tanker, which sank near Cape Town last week.
The penguins may not like their temporary home but when they are returned to Dassen Island the birds will be able to swim and fish in the sea in safety.
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English/Nat
XFA
An oil spill off South Africa's west coast is forcing the world's largest colony of African penguins to be temporarily moved from their homes.
Their destination is Cape Town, about 60 miles away, where hundreds
of volunteers are cleaning the penguins who were unlucky enough to get caught in the spill.
Conservation officials in the area have underlined the pressing need to protect the species from extinction.
This stunning South African coastline has been spoiled by an oil slick from a tanker that sank near Cape Town a week ago.
The penguins most at threat are those that nest on Dassen Island, a sandy, barren outcrop off South Africa's west coast.
Conservation officials say between three and six thousand penguins are being evacuated from Dassen Island's nature reserve .
The island is home to about 55-thousand African penguins.
This is a wildlife rescue on a massive scale.
Hundreds of volunteers have joined in the operation to remove the penguins from the danger zone.
Critics have condemned the oil spill as yet another example of human disregard for the ecosystem.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And really what we need now is that we need man to realize that this species has been hammered enough, we've got to now start working on the side of the species and ensure that it does actually survive into the next century."
SUPERCAPTION: Dr Ian Macdonald, Managing DirectorWWF
The birds are being placed in ventilated boxes so that they may be moved as quickly as possible.
Here the birds were being prepared to be shipped to the mainland.
They will then be trucked about 560 miles down the coast to this temporary site where they are being released.
Dassen Island Reserve Manager said that the rescue was concentrating its efforts on adult penguins in order to secure that the species breeds as soon as possible.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Unfortunately we having to leave the youngsters and its just from a conservation perspective we have to focus all our energy and resources on catching healthy adult birds which are going to return and start feeding immediately, and the population will hopefully be bought up over time much more quickly with the adult birds than if we had to wait three or four years for the juveniles or young birds to start breeding.
SUPERCAPTION: Anton Wolfaardt, Dassen Island Reserve Manager
There are plenty of ruffled feathers here but the penguins are in caring hands.
The penguins are expected to swim home in about eleven days.
Authorities hope that'll be enough time to clean up the spill from
a tanker, which sank near Cape Town last week.
The penguins may not like their temporary home but when they are returned to Dassen Island the birds will be able to swim and fish in the sea in safety.
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f50f1ad7e67a77f1f12bf34e827ab023
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Shell Oil: Human rights go up in flames

http://blog.amnestyusa.org/tag/shell-oil/
Gas flaring happens when oil is pumped out of the ground, producing gas. The gas is separated out and, in Nigeria, is...

http://blog.amnestyusa.org/tag/shell-oil/
Gas flaring happens when oil is pumped out of the ground, producing gas. The gas is separated out and, in Nigeria, is usually burnt as waste. This practice, combined with numerous oil spills, has left communities in the Niger Delta with little option but to drink polluted water, eat contaminated fish, farm on spoiled land and breathe in air that smells of oil and gas. It also makes a mockery of Shells much-flaunted business principles.
Help us caption & translate this video!
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http://blog.amnestyusa.org/tag/shell-oil/
Gas flaring happens when oil is pumped out of the ground, producing gas. The gas is separated out and, in Nigeria, is usually burnt as waste. This practice, combined with numerous oil spills, has left communities in the Niger Delta with little option but to drink polluted water, eat contaminated fish, farm on spoiled land and breathe in air that smells of oil and gas. It also makes a mockery of Shells much-flaunted business principles.
Help us caption & translate this video!
http://amara.org/v/CEVp/

published:19 May 2010

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Oil workers in Nigeria give government 14 days to address their concerns

Workers from the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas have threatened to go on strike. They have given the government 14 days to address their concerns. ...

Workers from the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas have threatened to go on strike. They have given the government 14 days to address their concerns. Labour union leaders claim many workers still lack proper severance pay packages after being laid off. Nigeria is one of Africa's largest oil producers. From Abuja here's Sophia Adengo with more.
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Workers from the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas have threatened to go on strike. They have given the government 14 days to address their concerns. Labour union leaders claim many workers still lack proper severance pay packages after being laid off. Nigeria is one of Africa's largest oil producers. From Abuja here's Sophia Adengo with more.
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http://www.protectthehuman.com/shell
Shell Nigeria is one of the largest oil producers in the Royal Dutch/ShellGroup. 80% of the oil extraction in Nigeria is in the Niger Delta, the southeast region of the country. The Delta is home to many small minority ethnic groups, including the Ogoni, all of which suffer egregious exploitation by multinational oil companies, like Shell. Shell provides over 50% of the income keeping the Nigerian dictatorship in power.
Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook. Shell has done next to nothing to help Ogoni. By 1996, Shell employed only 88 Ogoni (0.0002% of the Ogoni population, and only 2% of Shell's employees in Nigeria). Ogoni villages have no clean water, electricity, abysmal health care, no jobs for displaced farmers and fisher persons and face the effects of unrestrained environmental molestation by Shell everyday.
Since Shell began drilling oil in Ogoniland in 1958, the people of Ogoniland have had pipelines built across their farmlands and in front of their homes, suffered endemic oil leaks from these very pipelines, been forced to live with the constant flaring of gas. This environmental assault has smothered land with oil, killed masses of fish and other aquatic life, and introduced devastating acid rain to the land of the Ogoni. For the Ogoni, a people dependent upon farming and fishing, the poisoning of the land and water has had devastating economic and health consequences. Shell claims to clean up its oil spills, but such "clean-ups" consist of techniques like burning the crude which results in a permanent layer of crusted oil metres thick and scooping oil into holes dug in surrounding earth.
Both Shell and the government admit that Shell contributes to the funding of the military in the Delta region. Under the auspices of "protecting" Shell from peaceful demonstrators in the village of Umeuchem (10 miles from Ogoni), the police killed 80 people, destroyed houses and vital crops. Shell conceded it twice paid the military for going to specific villages. Although it disputes that the purpose of these excursions was to quiet dissent, each of the military missions paid for by Shell resulted in Ogoni fatalities. Shell has also admitted purchasing weapons for the police force who guard its facilities, and there is growing suspicion that Shell funds a much greater portion of the military than previously admitted.
Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 8 were leaders of MOSOP, the Movement for Survival of the Ogoni People. As outspoken environmental and human rights activists, they declared that Shell was not welcome in Ogoniland. On November 10, 1995, they were hanged after a trial by a special military tribunal (whose decisions cannot be appealed) in the murder of four other Ogoni activists. The defendants' lawyers were harassed and denied access to their clients. Although none of them were near the town where the murders occurred, they were convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that many heads of state strongly condemned for a stunning lack of evidence, unmasked partiality towards the prosecution and the haste of the trial. The executions were carried out a mere eight days after the decision. Two witnesses against the MOSOP leaders admitted that Shell and the military bribed them to testify against Ken Saro-Wiwa with promises of money and jobs at Shell. Ken's final words before his execution were:
"The struggle continues!"

http://www.protectthehuman.com/shell
Shell Nigeria is one of the largest oil producers in the Royal Dutch/ShellGroup. 80% of the oil extraction in Nigeria is in the Niger Delta, the southeast region of the country. The Delta is home to many small minority ethnic groups, including the Ogoni, all of which suffer egregious exploitation by multinational oil companies, like Shell. Shell provides over 50% of the income keeping the Nigerian dictatorship in power.
Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook. Shell has done next to nothing to help Ogoni. By 1996, Shell employed only 88 Ogoni (0.0002% of the Ogoni population, and only 2% of Shell's employees in Nigeria). Ogoni villages have no clean water, electricity, abysmal health care, no jobs for displaced farmers and fisher persons and face the effects of unrestrained environmental molestation by Shell everyday.
Since Shell began drilling oil in Ogoniland in 1958, the people of Ogoniland have had pipelines built across their farmlands and in front of their homes, suffered endemic oil leaks from these very pipelines, been forced to live with the constant flaring of gas. This environmental assault has smothered land with oil, killed masses of fish and other aquatic life, and introduced devastating acid rain to the land of the Ogoni. For the Ogoni, a people dependent upon farming and fishing, the poisoning of the land and water has had devastating economic and health consequences. Shell claims to clean up its oil spills, but such "clean-ups" consist of techniques like burning the crude which results in a permanent layer of crusted oil metres thick and scooping oil into holes dug in surrounding earth.
Both Shell and the government admit that Shell contributes to the funding of the military in the Delta region. Under the auspices of "protecting" Shell from peaceful demonstrators in the village of Umeuchem (10 miles from Ogoni), the police killed 80 people, destroyed houses and vital crops. Shell conceded it twice paid the military for going to specific villages. Although it disputes that the purpose of these excursions was to quiet dissent, each of the military missions paid for by Shell resulted in Ogoni fatalities. Shell has also admitted purchasing weapons for the police force who guard its facilities, and there is growing suspicion that Shell funds a much greater portion of the military than previously admitted.
Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 8 were leaders of MOSOP, the Movement for Survival of the Ogoni People. As outspoken environmental and human rights activists, they declared that Shell was not welcome in Ogoniland. On November 10, 1995, they were hanged after a trial by a special military tribunal (whose decisions cannot be appealed) in the murder of four other Ogoni activists. The defendants' lawyers were harassed and denied access to their clients. Although none of them were near the town where the murders occurred, they were convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that many heads of state strongly condemned for a stunning lack of evidence, unmasked partiality towards the prosecution and the haste of the trial. The executions were carried out a mere eight days after the decision. Two witnesses against the MOSOP leaders admitted that Shell and the military bribed them to testify against Ken Saro-Wiwa with promises of money and jobs at Shell. Ken's final words before his execution were:
"The struggle continues!"

English/Nat
An oil spill off South Africa's west coast is forcing the world's largest colony of African penguins to be temporarily moved from their homes.
Their destination is Cape Town, about 60 miles away, where hundreds
of volunteers are cleaning the penguins who were unlucky enough to get caught in the spill.
Conservation officials in the area have underlined the pressing need to protect the species from extinction.
This stunning South African coastline has been spoiled by an oil slick from a tanker that sank near Cape Town a week ago.
The penguins most at threat are those that nest on Dassen Island, a sandy, barren outcrop off South Africa's west coast.
Conservation officials say between three and six thousand penguins are being evacuated from Dassen Island's nature reserve .
The island is home to about 55-thousand African penguins.
This is a wildlife rescue on a massive scale.
Hundreds of volunteers have joined in the operation to remove the penguins from the danger zone.
Critics have condemned the oil spill as yet another example of human disregard for the ecosystem.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And really what we need now is that we need man to realize that this species has been hammered enough, we've got to now start working on the side of the species and ensure that it does actually survive into the next century."
SUPERCAPTION: Dr Ian Macdonald, Managing DirectorWWF
The birds are being placed in ventilated boxes so that they may be moved as quickly as possible.
Here the birds were being prepared to be shipped to the mainland.
They will then be trucked about 560 miles down the coast to this temporary site where they are being released.
Dassen Island Reserve Manager said that the rescue was concentrating its efforts on adult penguins in order to secure that the species breeds as soon as possible.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Unfortunately we having to leave the youngsters and its just from a conservation perspective we have to focus all our energy and resources on catching healthy adult birds which are going to return and start feeding immediately, and the population will hopefully be bought up over time much more quickly with the adult birds than if we had to wait three or four years for the juveniles or young birds to start breeding.
SUPERCAPTION: Anton Wolfaardt, Dassen Island Reserve Manager
There are plenty of ruffled feathers here but the penguins are in caring hands.
The penguins are expected to swim home in about eleven days.
Authorities hope that'll be enough time to clean up the spill from
a tanker, which sank near Cape Town last week.
The penguins may not like their temporary home but when they are returned to Dassen Island the birds will be able to swim and fish in the sea in safety.
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An oil spill off South Africa's west coast is forcing the world's largest colony of African penguins to be temporarily moved from their homes.
Their destination is Cape Town, about 60 miles away, where hundreds
of volunteers are cleaning the penguins who were unlucky enough to get caught in the spill.
Conservation officials in the area have underlined the pressing need to protect the species from extinction.
This stunning South African coastline has been spoiled by an oil slick from a tanker that sank near Cape Town a week ago.
The penguins most at threat are those that nest on Dassen Island, a sandy, barren outcrop off South Africa's west coast.
Conservation officials say between three and six thousand penguins are being evacuated from Dassen Island's nature reserve .
The island is home to about 55-thousand African penguins.
This is a wildlife rescue on a massive scale.
Hundreds of volunteers have joined in the operation to remove the penguins from the danger zone.
Critics have condemned the oil spill as yet another example of human disregard for the ecosystem.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And really what we need now is that we need man to realize that this species has been hammered enough, we've got to now start working on the side of the species and ensure that it does actually survive into the next century."
SUPERCAPTION: Dr Ian Macdonald, Managing DirectorWWF
The birds are being placed in ventilated boxes so that they may be moved as quickly as possible.
Here the birds were being prepared to be shipped to the mainland.
They will then be trucked about 560 miles down the coast to this temporary site where they are being released.
Dassen Island Reserve Manager said that the rescue was concentrating its efforts on adult penguins in order to secure that the species breeds as soon as possible.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Unfortunately we having to leave the youngsters and its just from a conservation perspective we have to focus all our energy and resources on catching healthy adult birds which are going to return and start feeding immediately, and the population will hopefully be bought up over time much more quickly with the adult birds than if we had to wait three or four years for the juveniles or young birds to start breeding.
SUPERCAPTION: Anton Wolfaardt, Dassen Island Reserve Manager
There are plenty of ruffled feathers here but the penguins are in caring hands.
The penguins are expected to swim home in about eleven days.
Authorities hope that'll be enough time to clean up the spill from
a tanker, which sank near Cape Town last week.
The penguins may not like their temporary home but when they are returned to Dassen Island the birds will be able to swim and fish in the sea in safety.
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Fight continues for Nigeria oil spill victims

BP has said again and again that it will cover the costs of cleaning up its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But away from the cameras, thousands in the Niger D...

BP has said again and again that it will cover the costs of cleaning up its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But away from the cameras, thousands in the Niger Delta, continue to battle for any compensation from numerous oil spills. Yvonne Ndege reports on the legal battle against foreign oil companies from the southern state of Bayelsa (8 June 2010).

BP has said again and again that it will cover the costs of cleaning up its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But away from the cameras, thousands in the Niger Delta, continue to battle for any compensation from numerous oil spills. Yvonne Ndege reports on the legal battle against foreign oil companies from the southern state of Bayelsa (8 June 2010).

Oilserve positions itself as a major oil/gas player in Nigeria

Oilserv, is a Nigerian servicing company with notable achievements in engineering, procurement and construction in the Oil & Gas space. It is using state of th...

Oilserv, is a Nigerian servicing company with notable achievements in engineering, procurement and construction in the Oil & Gas space. It is using state of the art technology to build pipelines across West Africa. Corporate access opens a window to the company handling the biggest gas pipeline installation in Nigeria. CNBCAFRICA’s Onyi Sunday reports.

Oilserv, is a Nigerian servicing company with notable achievements in engineering, procurement and construction in the Oil & Gas space. It is using state of the art technology to build pipelines across West Africa. Corporate access opens a window to the company handling the biggest gas pipeline installation in Nigeria. CNBCAFRICA’s Onyi Sunday reports.

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The Atlantic seaboard from Cape Town harbour past Sandy Bay is black with oil in what has been described as the Peninsula's worst oil pollution disaster, SABC news said on Saturday (25/6). An Environmental AffairsDepartment official said the oil bubbling out of a supertanker which was deliberately sunk off the coast 11 years ago is worst-ever ecological disaster Cape Town has ever suffered. Teams from the council cleaning department spent their Saturday physically cleaning up the oil and seabirds covered with oil slick.
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birds being washed
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birds in holding pen
birds being force fed
birds being tagged
birds herded into pen
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ms. ela voster of south african national conservation of birds
sot: saying both the islands that are major
breeding colonies have been affected
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The Atlantic seaboard from Cape Town harbour past Sandy Bay is black with oil in what has been described as the Peninsula's worst oil pollution disaster, SABC news said on Saturday (25/6). An Environmental AffairsDepartment official said the oil bubbling out of a supertanker which was deliberately sunk off the coast 11 years ago is worst-ever ecological disaster Cape Town has ever suffered. Teams from the council cleaning department spent their Saturday physically cleaning up the oil and seabirds covered with oil slick.
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ms. ela voster of south african national conservation of birds
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West Africa travel. Trip to Nigeria. Lagos shore.

A Guide for Traveling to West Africa

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Megan Kronberg recently returned from a 2 1/2 year operation with the United States' Peace Corps. She was stationed primarily in Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation in West Africa (near neighbor of Niger and Ghana). Entrenched in the regional culture for so long, Megan has accumulated an impressive catalog of tips and recommendations for the average american planning on vacationing in this beautiful country.
In this lesson, Megan describes some of the more important customs of which to be aware, lists off some of the common mistakes americans make when arriving in Africa, and generally prepares the viewer for his/her future trip. This is a must for any first time visitor to Africa.
Click on link above to see fu...

published: 18 Feb 2008

Cabo Verde (Africa) Vacation Travel Video Guide

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Travel video about destination Cabo Verde.
Cape Verde is an exotic island world, an archipelago off the coast of West Africa it combines the flair of the Canaries with the charm of Africa. ExplorersChristopher Columbus and Vasco Ad Gama lay anchor there in order to replenish supplies and repair their ships. It was not until 1445 that the fifteen islands were discovered and consequently became a Portuguese colony. We begin in the north east of the islands, in Sal. Crystal blue sea and endless sandy beaches, islands of both wind and sunshine with a volcanic lunar landscape twenty five kilometres long and twelve kilometres wide. Sal owes its name and colonization to its once most important export of salt which wa...

published: 23 Jun 2014

St. Lucia Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia (4K 60fps)

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Floating like an emerald teardrop between the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea is the island nation of St Lucia.
For centuries the original Arawak and Carib made their homes around the islands northern bays. In the 1550s, the notorious buccaneer, Peg Leg Le Clerc, became the first European to settle here.
After the pirates came the plantations, and the bittersweet years of sugar and slavery. Between the 17th and 19th centuries, St Lucia was pulled back and forth between the French and British, before finally gaining her independence in 1979.
Right in the heart of the capital, Castries, the main square pays tribute to two of the island’s Nobel Prize winning sons. Just across from the park, visit the bas...

The Gambia - Trip to The Smiling Coast of Africa

Gambia is being chosen more often as a holiday destination due to its great weather and fantastic nature. This film is portraying what we did while visiting the Gambia for the first time. We where there for only a week but during that time we've managed to visit some cool places but more importantly meet a bunch of beautiful people.

published: 12 Jun 2014

Travel guide - Africa tips and tricks

What to bring and think about when you go to Africa. Tips, tricks and advice from real Africa overland travelers. Check it out.Get inspired: Read more in our travel guide (http://travels.kilroy.eu/travel-guide)Get inspired: See our Africa adventures (http://travels.kilroy.eu/destinations/africa/adventure)

published: 22 Dec 2012

5 Reasons you should visit Cabo Verde in West Africa! | How to travel better

Malawi (Africa) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Vacation travel video about destination Malawi in Africa.
Malawi is the unknown Africa in the south-east of the Continent. A wild country between sea and highlands, a land of contrasts with amazing green mountains and high plateaus but most of all, Lake Malawi.In the north west and on the border with Zambia is the thousand square kilometre Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve, home to more than two hundred elephants who, in small groups, visit the Kazuni SafariCamp on their way to the lake. In theLake Kazuni area there are many hippos and crocodiles which although rarely seen from the shore can certainly be heard at night. The location of the small town of Nkhata Bay is quite spectacular, a large, sheltered bay, accessible via a steep slope. Small boats transport the local people to various loc...

published: 13 Nov 2015

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A Guide for Traveling to West Africa

http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/341-a-guide-for-traveling-to-west-africa
Megan Kronberg recently returned from a 2 1/2 year operation with the United States'...

http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/341-a-guide-for-traveling-to-west-africa
Megan Kronberg recently returned from a 2 1/2 year operation with the United States' Peace Corps. She was stationed primarily in Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation in West Africa (near neighbor of Niger and Ghana). Entrenched in the regional culture for so long, Megan has accumulated an impressive catalog of tips and recommendations for the average american planning on vacationing in this beautiful country.
In this lesson, Megan describes some of the more important customs of which to be aware, lists off some of the common mistakes americans make when arriving in Africa, and generally prepares the viewer for his/her future trip. This is a must for any first time visitor to Africa.
Click on link above to see full lesson

http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/341-a-guide-for-traveling-to-west-africa
Megan Kronberg recently returned from a 2 1/2 year operation with the United States' Peace Corps. She was stationed primarily in Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation in West Africa (near neighbor of Niger and Ghana). Entrenched in the regional culture for so long, Megan has accumulated an impressive catalog of tips and recommendations for the average american planning on vacationing in this beautiful country.
In this lesson, Megan describes some of the more important customs of which to be aware, lists off some of the common mistakes americans make when arriving in Africa, and generally prepares the viewer for his/her future trip. This is a must for any first time visitor to Africa.
Click on link above to see full lesson

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Travel video about destination Cabo Verde.
Cape Verde is an exotic island world, an archipelago off the coast of West Africa it combines the flair of the Canaries with the charm of Africa. ExplorersChristopher Columbus and Vasco Ad Gama lay anchor there in order to replenish supplies and repair their ships. It was not until 1445 that the fifteen islands were discovered and consequently became a Portuguese colony. We begin in the north east of the islands, in Sal. Crystal blue sea and endless sandy beaches, islands of both wind and sunshine with a volcanic lunar landscape twenty five kilometres long and twelve kilometres wide. Sal owes its name and colonization to its once most important export of salt which was to be found in huge quantities. Baia Da Fontana, close to Palmeira, appears like a shady oasis with various green trees that provide welcome shelter from the heat and in the background the dominant Monte Leste volcano where the slopes reach down to the shore and the splendid rock pools of Buracona. Mindelo, situated on the island São Vicente, is considered to be the cultural centre of the archipelago in which typical Creole art has been preserved. Sparse, raw and untamed it is dominated by powerful, almost mystical mountains. Santo Antão is an island of mountains, wind and water and the second largest island of Cape Verde. Its most important route is a road over the high mountains. The views of the Paúl Valley take the breath away. A fairytale world of stone which looks truly surreal. Against the background of the scenery, clouds entangle themselves within the mountains and provide life-giving moisture. Each island is unique and possesses its own special charm. Cabo Verde - islands full of light and joie de vivre!

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Travel video about destination Cabo Verde.
Cape Verde is an exotic island world, an archipelago off the coast of West Africa it combines the flair of the Canaries with the charm of Africa. ExplorersChristopher Columbus and Vasco Ad Gama lay anchor there in order to replenish supplies and repair their ships. It was not until 1445 that the fifteen islands were discovered and consequently became a Portuguese colony. We begin in the north east of the islands, in Sal. Crystal blue sea and endless sandy beaches, islands of both wind and sunshine with a volcanic lunar landscape twenty five kilometres long and twelve kilometres wide. Sal owes its name and colonization to its once most important export of salt which was to be found in huge quantities. Baia Da Fontana, close to Palmeira, appears like a shady oasis with various green trees that provide welcome shelter from the heat and in the background the dominant Monte Leste volcano where the slopes reach down to the shore and the splendid rock pools of Buracona. Mindelo, situated on the island São Vicente, is considered to be the cultural centre of the archipelago in which typical Creole art has been preserved. Sparse, raw and untamed it is dominated by powerful, almost mystical mountains. Santo Antão is an island of mountains, wind and water and the second largest island of Cape Verde. Its most important route is a road over the high mountains. The views of the Paúl Valley take the breath away. A fairytale world of stone which looks truly surreal. Against the background of the scenery, clouds entangle themselves within the mountains and provide life-giving moisture. Each island is unique and possesses its own special charm. Cabo Verde - islands full of light and joie de vivre!

https://www.expedia.com/St-Lucia.d168.Destination-Travel-Guides
Floating like an emerald teardrop between the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea is the island nation of St Lucia.
For centuries the original Arawak and Carib made their homes around the islands northern bays. In the 1550s, the notorious buccaneer, Peg Leg Le Clerc, became the first European to settle here.
After the pirates came the plantations, and the bittersweet years of sugar and slavery. Between the 17th and 19th centuries, St Lucia was pulled back and forth between the French and British, before finally gaining her independence in 1979.
Right in the heart of the capital, Castries, the main square pays tribute to two of the island’s Nobel Prize winning sons. Just across from the park, visit the basilica, filled with murals that blend the colours and traditions of Africa, the Caribbean and the West.
At the Central Market, taste the fruits of this island’s volcanic soil, enjoy real St Lucian home cooking, and browse crafts made by local hands. The creation story continues at Eudovik’s ArtStudio, where master carvers transform tree roots into sensual works of art.
The sleepy French colonial town, Soufriere, is cradled by some of the island’s greatest natural treasures. Just a short boat ride away is one island’s finest resort beaches, Anse Chastanet. While nestled between the two volcanic spires of Gros and Petit Piton, is one of the west coast’s most secluded hideaways, Sugar Beach.

https://www.expedia.com/St-Lucia.d168.Destination-Travel-Guides
Floating like an emerald teardrop between the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea is the island nation of St Lucia.
For centuries the original Arawak and Carib made their homes around the islands northern bays. In the 1550s, the notorious buccaneer, Peg Leg Le Clerc, became the first European to settle here.
After the pirates came the plantations, and the bittersweet years of sugar and slavery. Between the 17th and 19th centuries, St Lucia was pulled back and forth between the French and British, before finally gaining her independence in 1979.
Right in the heart of the capital, Castries, the main square pays tribute to two of the island’s Nobel Prize winning sons. Just across from the park, visit the basilica, filled with murals that blend the colours and traditions of Africa, the Caribbean and the West.
At the Central Market, taste the fruits of this island’s volcanic soil, enjoy real St Lucian home cooking, and browse crafts made by local hands. The creation story continues at Eudovik’s ArtStudio, where master carvers transform tree roots into sensual works of art.
The sleepy French colonial town, Soufriere, is cradled by some of the island’s greatest natural treasures. Just a short boat ride away is one island’s finest resort beaches, Anse Chastanet. While nestled between the two volcanic spires of Gros and Petit Piton, is one of the west coast’s most secluded hideaways, Sugar Beach.

The Gambia - Trip to The Smiling Coast of Africa

Gambia is being chosen more often as a holiday destination due to its great weather and fantastic nature. This film is portraying what we did while visiting the...

Gambia is being chosen more often as a holiday destination due to its great weather and fantastic nature. This film is portraying what we did while visiting the Gambia for the first time. We where there for only a week but during that time we've managed to visit some cool places but more importantly meet a bunch of beautiful people.

Gambia is being chosen more often as a holiday destination due to its great weather and fantastic nature. This film is portraying what we did while visiting the Gambia for the first time. We where there for only a week but during that time we've managed to visit some cool places but more importantly meet a bunch of beautiful people.

Travel guide - Africa tips and tricks

What to bring and think about when you go to Africa. Tips, tricks and advice from real Africa overland travelers. Check it out.Get inspired: Read more in our tr...

What to bring and think about when you go to Africa. Tips, tricks and advice from real Africa overland travelers. Check it out.Get inspired: Read more in our travel guide (http://travels.kilroy.eu/travel-guide)Get inspired: See our Africa adventures (http://travels.kilroy.eu/destinations/africa/adventure)

What to bring and think about when you go to Africa. Tips, tricks and advice from real Africa overland travelers. Check it out.Get inspired: Read more in our travel guide (http://travels.kilroy.eu/travel-guide)Get inspired: See our Africa adventures (http://travels.kilroy.eu/destinations/africa/adventure)

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Malawi (Africa) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Vacation travel video about destination Malawi in Africa.
Malawi is the unknown Africa in the south-east of the Continent. A wild country between sea and highl...

Vacation travel video about destination Malawi in Africa.
Malawi is the unknown Africa in the south-east of the Continent. A wild country between sea and highlands, a land of contrasts with amazing green mountains and high plateaus but most of all, Lake Malawi.In the north west and on the border with Zambia is the thousand square kilometre Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve, home to more than two hundred elephants who, in small groups, visit the Kazuni SafariCamp on their way to the lake. In theLake Kazuni area there are many hippos and crocodiles which although rarely seen from the shore can certainly be heard at night. The location of the small town of Nkhata Bay is quite spectacular, a large, sheltered bay, accessible via a steep slope. Small boats transport the local people to various locations so that they can buy and sell, as there are hardly any roads around the lake. A restless, colourful and vibrant harbour town and the northernmost point which famous explorer Dr. David Livingstone reached on his historic voyage of discovery. Cichlids, the living jewels of Lake Malawi, are highly sought after among aquatic fish enthusiasts, the brightly coloured males achieving the highest prices. Provided with a good supply of oxygen and a light sedative in the water, once a month the fish are taken to the airport. The craggy rock scenery of Lake Malawi was not always below water. Only when the southern section of the East African Rift Valley filled with water did it become home to cichlids. On the extreme south east coast on the border with Mozambique is Mount Mulanje, a huge mountain range that formed during volcanic activity more than a hundred and thirty million years ago. At the foot of the mountain scenery grows one of the world’s finest varieties of tea. The Maravi Kingdom eventually became an independent country, Malawi, the warm and beating heart of Africa!
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Vacation travel video about destination Malawi in Africa.
Malawi is the unknown Africa in the south-east of the Continent. A wild country between sea and highlands, a land of contrasts with amazing green mountains and high plateaus but most of all, Lake Malawi.In the north west and on the border with Zambia is the thousand square kilometre Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve, home to more than two hundred elephants who, in small groups, visit the Kazuni SafariCamp on their way to the lake. In theLake Kazuni area there are many hippos and crocodiles which although rarely seen from the shore can certainly be heard at night. The location of the small town of Nkhata Bay is quite spectacular, a large, sheltered bay, accessible via a steep slope. Small boats transport the local people to various locations so that they can buy and sell, as there are hardly any roads around the lake. A restless, colourful and vibrant harbour town and the northernmost point which famous explorer Dr. David Livingstone reached on his historic voyage of discovery. Cichlids, the living jewels of Lake Malawi, are highly sought after among aquatic fish enthusiasts, the brightly coloured males achieving the highest prices. Provided with a good supply of oxygen and a light sedative in the water, once a month the fish are taken to the airport. The craggy rock scenery of Lake Malawi was not always below water. Only when the southern section of the East African Rift Valley filled with water did it become home to cichlids. On the extreme south east coast on the border with Mozambique is Mount Mulanje, a huge mountain range that formed during volcanic activity more than a hundred and thirty million years ago. At the foot of the mountain scenery grows one of the world’s finest varieties of tea. The Maravi Kingdom eventually became an independent country, Malawi, the warm and beating heart of Africa!
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Ghana Cities Guide -The Accra City Promo Video

Are you a tourist or visitor to Ghana, with only a day or few days to spare to enjoy a city in Ghana, this project is for you? We have carefully prepared tips o...

Are you a tourist or visitor to Ghana, with only a day or few days to spare to enjoy a city in Ghana, this project is for you? We have carefully prepared tips on how to have the best days out in the cities in Ghana. Find out more information at www.cityguideghana.com

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Oil operations in West Africa by Peter Clutterbuck

Stealing Africa - Why Poverty?

How much profit is fair? To find out more and get teaching resources, go to www.whypoverty.net
Rüschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Based on original research into public documents, the film describes the tax system employed by multinational companies in Africa.
Director Christoffer Guldbrandsen
Producer Henrik Veileborg
Produced by Guld­brandsen FilmVideoURL: http://youtu.be/WNYemuiA...

Oil Spills & Corruption In Nigeria

IZIGAN: Atrocities Of Herdsmen In West Africa

published: 09 Jul 2017

Turbulent world of Nigeria's downstream oil and gas sector

In this episode of Economic LifelinesNigeria we delve in to the often turbulent world of Nigeria's downstream oil and gas sector to uncover the potential economic impact of this segment of Nigeria's oil and gas industry.

published: 30 May 2014

Zembla: Shell's dirty oil

Since the oil companies began their hunt for oil in Nigeria, there is an estimated 1.5 million tons of oil flown across farmland and into the marshes. That pollution continues unabated. The people want it finally stoped and direct their anger at Shell. The leading Dutch/British oil giant makes billions in profits, but is accused of sacrificing the environment and human rights. ZEMBLA went to the Niger Delta and saw the practices of Shell.
This episode is a rerun from Februari 2011.

published: 25 Dec 2014

Expansion of Imperialist U.S. “War on Terror” in Africa Preceded Deadly Attacks in Niger & Somalia

Nigeria- violence, corruption and oil

20/04/2010 - What was behind the violence around the city of Jos in recent months and what impact has it had on the country? What are the prospects of the violence continuing and how effective is acting PresidentGoodluck Jonathan likely to be in preventing it?
We will be discussing these questions and looking at the wider political instability since President Umaru Yar'Adua disappeared from the public eye due to illness, and looking ahead to Nigeria's elections next year.
While the recent attacks put Nigeria in the media spotlight, we will also be examining how well the Western media has been able to make sense of the country's difficulties. How much do we know about this oil-rich country where oil has permeated all aspects of life and exploitation, injustices and abuses of power are co...

published: 16 Aug 2012

shame illegal mines of zhuang nation in African

A voice of justice Zhuang people: a place called Serenade place, where so-called Zhuang and Han people went to illegal mining in Ghana, Africa and plunder of resources, destruction of the environment.
Zhuang generations is a national passion for environmental protection, such as the so-called Zhuang people, Han is simply bogus. Zhuang people in their own land, the pollution of the environment will be subject to various penalties and damage to the environment they are forced to destroy factories, and death often occurs because of environmental pollution caused.
Since their land is protected 30 million Zhuang people are unable to guarantee that no scum, those so-called Serenade Zhuang Zhuang is a disgrace, they must be cleaned out. Hope that all the countries of Africa, please go to clean...

published: 14 Jul 2014

How Sewage Treatment Works - Waste Water cleaning in Sewer System - Santander By Juan Gonzalo Angel

Twitter @juangangel
Giron - Santander ColombiaSewage treatment may also be referred to as wastewater treatment, although the latter is a broader term which can also be applied to purely industrial wastewater. For most cities, the sewer system will also carry a proportional of industrial effluent to the sewage treatment plant which has usually received pretreatment at the factories themselves to reduce the pollutant load. If the sewer system is a combined sewer then it will also carry urban runoff (stormwater) to the sewage treatment plant.
The total mass of organic matter (measured as biochemical oxygen demand) discharged to receiving water bodies is equal to the discharge concentration times the flow volume.
Sewage treatment is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater, primar...

Drills and Spills: The Rhetoric and Reality of Offshore Oil Resources

AspenEnvironmentForum, 2010.
The recent tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico offer a vivid reminder of the environmental risks involved with drilling at sea.
How much of our oil supply now comes and could come from offshore oil fields, especially deep-water ones? To the extent offshore drilling does occur, how can it be regulated to prevent another disaster? Panelists: Elizabeth Cheney, Robert Gagosian, Bruce Babbitt, Kevin CostnerModerator: Joel AchenbachFollow us on:
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published: 09 Apr 2015

Searching for peace in Nigeria's Delta region

Nigeria's PresidentMuhammadu Buhari today met leaders from the Niger Delta region with a view to map out a path to peace that will stop the incessant attacks on oil production and transportation facilities that have cost the country billions of dollars over the last decade. CNBC Africa's Onyi Sunday spoke to Udengs Eradiri, President of the Ijaw Youth Council and discussed the prospect of lasting peace in the region after the talks.

published: 01 Nov 2016

PIAC's full presentation on the management of petroleum revenues for 2016

published: 15 Jun 2017

Access to Justice and Extractive Industries

Speakers: Aidan Davy, Richard Meeran, Juan Pablo Sáenz, Jake WhiteChair: Dr Veerle Heyvaert
Recorded on 13 March 2014 in Hong KongTheatre, Clement House.
A panel of international legal and industry experts discuss the fraught world of environmental justice, human rights, minerals and mining and explain why it should be of concern to us all. The EJOLT project (Environmental JusticeOrganizations, Liabilities and Trade) will also launch its global map of environmental (in)justice.
Aidan Davy is deputy president and senior program director at the International Council for Mining and Minerals (ICMM). Aidan has extensive experience with sustainable development and social responsibility issues, with a strong emphasis on the extractive industries. He has worked as an independent consultant...

published: 14 Mar 2014

People & Power - Crude Amnesty

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On August the 6, 2009 the government of Nigeria offered an amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta region. People&Power's Juliana Ruhfus returns to the Niger Delta to investigate the amnesty which had aimed to end the deadly conflict.
At Al Jazeera English, we focus on people and events that affect people's lives. We bring topics to light that often go under-reported, listening to all sides of the story and giving a 'voice to the voiceless.'
Reaching more than 270 million households in over 140 countries across the globe, our viewers trust Al Jazeera English to keep them informed, inspired, and entertained.
Our impartial, fact-based reporting wins worldwide praise and respect. It is our unique brand of journalism that the world has come ...

published: 04 Aug 2010

Poison Fire

11.16.17 Permian and Peak Demand: Death of OPEC?

The world of oil and gas is changing. On the supply side, the rebound in production from the Permian has transformed the geopolitical pressures and has raised the question if OPEC has any ability to control prices. With the projected transformation of the transportation fleet to electrical systems, does the idea of "lower for longer" have validity? These are some of the questions that were addressed at the symposium held on November 16, 2017 at the University of Houston.

published: 10 Jan 2018

Nigeria's Oil Blocs Allocation And Regulatory Controversies Part 1

LoveWorldPlus TV: The procedure for awarding oil blocks in Nigeria has become urgent, given the current controversy over which section of the country controls majority interest in the oil industry. SenatorIta Enang caused a stir during the Senate session on March 6, 2013 when he alleged that 83 per cent of the oil blocks were owned by people from the northern part of the country. This, if true, could only have been possible in an atmosphere of arbitrariness, corruption and lack of transparency. Experts have advised that decisions on how oil and gas licenses are allocated to companies, need to be taken in a transparent orderly method to remove any risk of conflicts of interests. These are the issues we hope to analyze in this edition of The Agenda.

published: 02 Apr 2013

Artscape - The New African Photography: George Osodi

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George Osodi's photo project, Oil RichNiger Delta, and the resulting book of stunning pictures, DeltaNigeria -- The Rape of Paradise brought attention to the environmental problems in the area and made Osodi one of Nigeria's most sought-after photographers.
"I think it's my responsibility as the man with the camera to find a way to represent this [situation], so that it becomes appealing to whoever sees it," explains Osodi. "At first sight you're like, 'what a beauty', but then behind it is a huge Armageddon. It'slike hell on earth."
This film follows Osodi as he continues to document the devastating effects of oil spills in the wetland region and as he tackles his latest project, ab...

Stealing Africa - Why Poverty?

How much profit is fair? To find out more and get teaching resources, go to www.whypoverty.net
Rüschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate ...

How much profit is fair? To find out more and get teaching resources, go to www.whypoverty.net
Rüschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Based on original research into public documents, the film describes the tax system employed by multinational companies in Africa.
Director Christoffer Guldbrandsen
Producer Henrik Veileborg
Produced by Guld­brandsen FilmVideoURL: http://youtu.be/WNYemuiAOfU

How much profit is fair? To find out more and get teaching resources, go to www.whypoverty.net
Rüschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Based on original research into public documents, the film describes the tax system employed by multinational companies in Africa.
Director Christoffer Guldbrandsen
Producer Henrik Veileborg
Produced by Guld­brandsen FilmVideoURL: http://youtu.be/WNYemuiAOfU

Turbulent world of Nigeria's downstream oil and gas sector

In this episode of Economic LifelinesNigeria we delve in to the often turbulent world of Nigeria's downstream oil and gas sector to uncover the potential econo...

In this episode of Economic LifelinesNigeria we delve in to the often turbulent world of Nigeria's downstream oil and gas sector to uncover the potential economic impact of this segment of Nigeria's oil and gas industry.

In this episode of Economic LifelinesNigeria we delve in to the often turbulent world of Nigeria's downstream oil and gas sector to uncover the potential economic impact of this segment of Nigeria's oil and gas industry.

Zembla: Shell's dirty oil

Since the oil companies began their hunt for oil in Nigeria, there is an estimated 1.5 million tons of oil flown across farmland and into the marshes. That poll...

Since the oil companies began their hunt for oil in Nigeria, there is an estimated 1.5 million tons of oil flown across farmland and into the marshes. That pollution continues unabated. The people want it finally stoped and direct their anger at Shell. The leading Dutch/British oil giant makes billions in profits, but is accused of sacrificing the environment and human rights. ZEMBLA went to the Niger Delta and saw the practices of Shell.
This episode is a rerun from Februari 2011.

Since the oil companies began their hunt for oil in Nigeria, there is an estimated 1.5 million tons of oil flown across farmland and into the marshes. That pollution continues unabated. The people want it finally stoped and direct their anger at Shell. The leading Dutch/British oil giant makes billions in profits, but is accused of sacrificing the environment and human rights. ZEMBLA went to the Niger Delta and saw the practices of Shell.
This episode is a rerun from Februari 2011.

published:25 Dec 2014

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Expansion of Imperialist U.S. “War on Terror” in Africa Preceded Deadly Attacks in Niger & Somalia

A voice of justice Zhuang people: a place called Serenade place, where so-called Zhuang and Han people went to illegal mining in Ghana, Africa and plunder of resources, destruction of the environment.
Zhuang generations is a national passion for environmental protection, such as the so-called Zhuang people, Han is simply bogus. Zhuang people in their own land, the pollution of the environment will be subject to various penalties and damage to the environment they are forced to destroy factories, and death often occurs because of environmental pollution caused.
Since their land is protected 30 million Zhuang people are unable to guarantee that no scum, those so-called Serenade Zhuang Zhuang is a disgrace, they must be cleaned out. Hope that all the countries of Africa, please go to clean up these Guangxi Zhuang people, especially the mining of these people, these people in Guangxi, China is identified as the perpetrators of the Zhuang people called on African countries to expel request these so-called Zhuang people, these mining company is basically a crime, please you confiscate their property and expel them out of your borders.

A voice of justice Zhuang people: a place called Serenade place, where so-called Zhuang and Han people went to illegal mining in Ghana, Africa and plunder of resources, destruction of the environment.
Zhuang generations is a national passion for environmental protection, such as the so-called Zhuang people, Han is simply bogus. Zhuang people in their own land, the pollution of the environment will be subject to various penalties and damage to the environment they are forced to destroy factories, and death often occurs because of environmental pollution caused.
Since their land is protected 30 million Zhuang people are unable to guarantee that no scum, those so-called Serenade Zhuang Zhuang is a disgrace, they must be cleaned out. Hope that all the countries of Africa, please go to clean up these Guangxi Zhuang people, especially the mining of these people, these people in Guangxi, China is identified as the perpetrators of the Zhuang people called on African countries to expel request these so-called Zhuang people, these mining company is basically a crime, please you confiscate their property and expel them out of your borders.

published:14 Jul 2014

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How Sewage Treatment Works - Waste Water cleaning in Sewer System - Santander By Juan Gonzalo Angel

Twitter @juangangel
Giron - Santander ColombiaSewage treatment may also be referred to as wastewater treatment, although the latter is a broader term which can also be applied to purely industrial wastewater. For most cities, the sewer system will also carry a proportional of industrial effluent to the sewage treatment plant which has usually received pretreatment at the factories themselves to reduce the pollutant load. If the sewer system is a combined sewer then it will also carry urban runoff (stormwater) to the sewage treatment plant.
The total mass of organic matter (measured as biochemical oxygen demand) discharged to receiving water bodies is equal to the discharge concentration times the flow volume.
Sewage treatment is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater, primarily from household sewage. It includes physical, chemical, and biological processes to remove these contaminants and produce environmentally safe treated wastewater (or treated effluent). A by-product of sewage treatment is usually a semi-solid waste or slurry, called sewage sludge, that has to undergo further treatment before being suitable for disposal or land application.
Sewage collection and treatment is typically subject to local, state and federal regulations and standards.
Treating wastewater has the aim to produce an effluent that will do as little harm as possible when discharged to the surrounding environment, thereby preventing pollution compared to releasing untreated wastewater into the environment.[5]
Sewage treatment generally involves three stages, called primary, secondary and tertiary treatment.
Primary treatment consists of temporarily holding the sewage in a quiescent basin where heavy solids can settle to the bottom while oil, grease and lighter solids float to the surface. The settled and floating materials are removed and the remaining liquid may be discharged or subjected to secondary treatment. Some sewage treatment plants that are connected to a combined sewer system have a bypass arrangement after the primary treatment unit. This means that during very heavy rainfall events, the secondary and tertiary treatment systems can be bypassed to protect them from hydraulic overloading, and the mixture of sewage and stormwater only receives primary treatment.
Secondary treatment removes dissolved and suspended biological matter. Secondary treatment is typically performed by indigenous, water-borne micro-organisms in a managed habitat. Secondary treatment may require a separation process to remove the micro-organisms from the treated water prior to discharge or tertiary treatment.
Tertiary treatment is sometimes defined as anything more than primary and secondary treatment in order to allow rejection into a highly sensitive or fragile ecosystem (estuaries, low-flow rivers, coral reefs,...). Treated water is sometimes disinfected chemically or physically (for example, by lagoons and microfiltration) prior to discharge into a stream, river, bay, lagoon or wetland, or it can be used for the irrigation of a golf course, green way or park. If it is sufficiently clean, it can also be used for groundwater recharge or agricultural purposes.
More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewage_treatment
JuanGonzaloAngel
www.tvagro.tv

Twitter @juangangel
Giron - Santander ColombiaSewage treatment may also be referred to as wastewater treatment, although the latter is a broader term which can also be applied to purely industrial wastewater. For most cities, the sewer system will also carry a proportional of industrial effluent to the sewage treatment plant which has usually received pretreatment at the factories themselves to reduce the pollutant load. If the sewer system is a combined sewer then it will also carry urban runoff (stormwater) to the sewage treatment plant.
The total mass of organic matter (measured as biochemical oxygen demand) discharged to receiving water bodies is equal to the discharge concentration times the flow volume.
Sewage treatment is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater, primarily from household sewage. It includes physical, chemical, and biological processes to remove these contaminants and produce environmentally safe treated wastewater (or treated effluent). A by-product of sewage treatment is usually a semi-solid waste or slurry, called sewage sludge, that has to undergo further treatment before being suitable for disposal or land application.
Sewage collection and treatment is typically subject to local, state and federal regulations and standards.
Treating wastewater has the aim to produce an effluent that will do as little harm as possible when discharged to the surrounding environment, thereby preventing pollution compared to releasing untreated wastewater into the environment.[5]
Sewage treatment generally involves three stages, called primary, secondary and tertiary treatment.
Primary treatment consists of temporarily holding the sewage in a quiescent basin where heavy solids can settle to the bottom while oil, grease and lighter solids float to the surface. The settled and floating materials are removed and the remaining liquid may be discharged or subjected to secondary treatment. Some sewage treatment plants that are connected to a combined sewer system have a bypass arrangement after the primary treatment unit. This means that during very heavy rainfall events, the secondary and tertiary treatment systems can be bypassed to protect them from hydraulic overloading, and the mixture of sewage and stormwater only receives primary treatment.
Secondary treatment removes dissolved and suspended biological matter. Secondary treatment is typically performed by indigenous, water-borne micro-organisms in a managed habitat. Secondary treatment may require a separation process to remove the micro-organisms from the treated water prior to discharge or tertiary treatment.
Tertiary treatment is sometimes defined as anything more than primary and secondary treatment in order to allow rejection into a highly sensitive or fragile ecosystem (estuaries, low-flow rivers, coral reefs,...). Treated water is sometimes disinfected chemically or physically (for example, by lagoons and microfiltration) prior to discharge into a stream, river, bay, lagoon or wetland, or it can be used for the irrigation of a golf course, green way or park. If it is sufficiently clean, it can also be used for groundwater recharge or agricultural purposes.
More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewage_treatment
JuanGonzaloAngel
www.tvagro.tv

AspenEnvironmentForum, 2010.
The recent tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico offer a vivid reminder of the environmental risks involved with drilling at sea.
How much of our oil supply now comes and could come from offshore oil fields, especially deep-water ones? To the extent offshore drilling does occur, how can it be regulated to prevent another disaster? Panelists: Elizabeth Cheney, Robert Gagosian, Bruce Babbitt, Kevin CostnerModerator: Joel AchenbachFollow us on:
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AspenEnvironmentForum, 2010.
The recent tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico offer a vivid reminder of the environmental risks involved with drilling at sea.
How much of our oil supply now comes and could come from offshore oil fields, especially deep-water ones? To the extent offshore drilling does occur, how can it be regulated to prevent another disaster? Panelists: Elizabeth Cheney, Robert Gagosian, Bruce Babbitt, Kevin CostnerModerator: Joel AchenbachFollow us on:
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Nigeria's PresidentMuhammadu Buhari today met leaders from the Niger Delta region with a view to map out a path to peace that will stop the incessant attacks on oil production and transportation facilities that have cost the country billions of dollars over the last decade. CNBC Africa's Onyi Sunday spoke to Udengs Eradiri, President of the Ijaw Youth Council and discussed the prospect of lasting peace in the region after the talks.

Nigeria's PresidentMuhammadu Buhari today met leaders from the Niger Delta region with a view to map out a path to peace that will stop the incessant attacks on oil production and transportation facilities that have cost the country billions of dollars over the last decade. CNBC Africa's Onyi Sunday spoke to Udengs Eradiri, President of the Ijaw Youth Council and discussed the prospect of lasting peace in the region after the talks.

published:01 Nov 2016

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PIAC's full presentation on the management of petroleum revenues for 2016

Speakers: Aidan Davy, Richard Meeran, Juan Pablo Sáenz, Jake WhiteChair: Dr Veerle Heyvaert
Recorded on 13 March 2014 in Hong KongTheatre, Clement House.
A panel of international legal and industry experts discuss the fraught world of environmental justice, human rights, minerals and mining and explain why it should be of concern to us all. The EJOLT project (Environmental JusticeOrganizations, Liabilities and Trade) will also launch its global map of environmental (in)justice.
Aidan Davy is deputy president and senior program director at the International Council for Mining and Minerals (ICMM). Aidan has extensive experience with sustainable development and social responsibility issues, with a strong emphasis on the extractive industries. He has worked as an independent consultant for a range of multi-lateral/bilateral and private sector clients on many of the emerging challenges for the sector.
Richard Meeran is a partner at Leigh Day & Co. Richard pioneered claims against UK-based multinationals, Cape PLC for 7,500South African asbestos victims and ThorChemicals for South African workers poisoned by mercury. Since 2004, Richard has worked with South African NGOs & gold miners on silicosis claims against Anglo American, and with Tanzanian villagers in a claim against African Barrick Gold.
Juan Pablo Sáenz is a representative of the Amazon Defense Coalition and founding partner of Fromboliere Abogados. The ADC secured one of the largest judicial victories in environmental litigation history, which saw Chevron ordered to pay $9.5 billion in damages to remediate profound environmental, social and health impacts caused by its operations in Ecuador.
Jake White is a environmental lawyer at Friends of the Earth. Jake has worked for Britain's Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department of Energy & Climate Change, designing a legislative structure to ensure waste and clean-up are paid for by operators. At FoE he works on climate and energy, in particular fracking which has involved working closely with local communities.
This event is supported by the Business & Human RightsResourceCentre and the EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade) Project.

Speakers: Aidan Davy, Richard Meeran, Juan Pablo Sáenz, Jake WhiteChair: Dr Veerle Heyvaert
Recorded on 13 March 2014 in Hong KongTheatre, Clement House.
A panel of international legal and industry experts discuss the fraught world of environmental justice, human rights, minerals and mining and explain why it should be of concern to us all. The EJOLT project (Environmental JusticeOrganizations, Liabilities and Trade) will also launch its global map of environmental (in)justice.
Aidan Davy is deputy president and senior program director at the International Council for Mining and Minerals (ICMM). Aidan has extensive experience with sustainable development and social responsibility issues, with a strong emphasis on the extractive industries. He has worked as an independent consultant for a range of multi-lateral/bilateral and private sector clients on many of the emerging challenges for the sector.
Richard Meeran is a partner at Leigh Day & Co. Richard pioneered claims against UK-based multinationals, Cape PLC for 7,500South African asbestos victims and ThorChemicals for South African workers poisoned by mercury. Since 2004, Richard has worked with South African NGOs & gold miners on silicosis claims against Anglo American, and with Tanzanian villagers in a claim against African Barrick Gold.
Juan Pablo Sáenz is a representative of the Amazon Defense Coalition and founding partner of Fromboliere Abogados. The ADC secured one of the largest judicial victories in environmental litigation history, which saw Chevron ordered to pay $9.5 billion in damages to remediate profound environmental, social and health impacts caused by its operations in Ecuador.
Jake White is a environmental lawyer at Friends of the Earth. Jake has worked for Britain's Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department of Energy & Climate Change, designing a legislative structure to ensure waste and clean-up are paid for by operators. At FoE he works on climate and energy, in particular fracking which has involved working closely with local communities.
This event is supported by the Business & Human RightsResourceCentre and the EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade) Project.

People & Power - Crude Amnesty

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On August the 6, 2009 the government of Nigeria offered an amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta region. P...

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On August the 6, 2009 the government of Nigeria offered an amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta region. People&Power's Juliana Ruhfus returns to the Niger Delta to investigate the amnesty which had aimed to end the deadly conflict.
At Al Jazeera English, we focus on people and events that affect people's lives. We bring topics to light that often go under-reported, listening to all sides of the story and giving a 'voice to the voiceless.'
Reaching more than 270 million households in over 140 countries across the globe, our viewers trust Al Jazeera English to keep them informed, inspired, and entertained.
Our impartial, fact-based reporting wins worldwide praise and respect. It is our unique brand of journalism that the world has come to rely on.
We are reshaping global media and constantly working to strengthen our reputation as one of the world's most respected news and current affairs channels.
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On August the 6, 2009 the government of Nigeria offered an amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta region. People&Power's Juliana Ruhfus returns to the Niger Delta to investigate the amnesty which had aimed to end the deadly conflict.
At Al Jazeera English, we focus on people and events that affect people's lives. We bring topics to light that often go under-reported, listening to all sides of the story and giving a 'voice to the voiceless.'
Reaching more than 270 million households in over 140 countries across the globe, our viewers trust Al Jazeera English to keep them informed, inspired, and entertained.
Our impartial, fact-based reporting wins worldwide praise and respect. It is our unique brand of journalism that the world has come to rely on.
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11.16.17 Permian and Peak Demand: Death of OPEC?

The world of oil and gas is changing. On the supply side, the rebound in production from the Permian has transformed the geopolitical pressures and has raised t...

The world of oil and gas is changing. On the supply side, the rebound in production from the Permian has transformed the geopolitical pressures and has raised the question if OPEC has any ability to control prices. With the projected transformation of the transportation fleet to electrical systems, does the idea of "lower for longer" have validity? These are some of the questions that were addressed at the symposium held on November 16, 2017 at the University of Houston.

The world of oil and gas is changing. On the supply side, the rebound in production from the Permian has transformed the geopolitical pressures and has raised the question if OPEC has any ability to control prices. With the projected transformation of the transportation fleet to electrical systems, does the idea of "lower for longer" have validity? These are some of the questions that were addressed at the symposium held on November 16, 2017 at the University of Houston.

Nigeria's Oil Blocs Allocation And Regulatory Controversies Part 1

LoveWorldPlus TV: The procedure for awarding oil blocks in Nigeria has become urgent, given the current controversy over which section of the country controls m...

LoveWorldPlus TV: The procedure for awarding oil blocks in Nigeria has become urgent, given the current controversy over which section of the country controls majority interest in the oil industry. SenatorIta Enang caused a stir during the Senate session on March 6, 2013 when he alleged that 83 per cent of the oil blocks were owned by people from the northern part of the country. This, if true, could only have been possible in an atmosphere of arbitrariness, corruption and lack of transparency. Experts have advised that decisions on how oil and gas licenses are allocated to companies, need to be taken in a transparent orderly method to remove any risk of conflicts of interests. These are the issues we hope to analyze in this edition of The Agenda.

LoveWorldPlus TV: The procedure for awarding oil blocks in Nigeria has become urgent, given the current controversy over which section of the country controls majority interest in the oil industry. SenatorIta Enang caused a stir during the Senate session on March 6, 2013 when he alleged that 83 per cent of the oil blocks were owned by people from the northern part of the country. This, if true, could only have been possible in an atmosphere of arbitrariness, corruption and lack of transparency. Experts have advised that decisions on how oil and gas licenses are allocated to companies, need to be taken in a transparent orderly method to remove any risk of conflicts of interests. These are the issues we hope to analyze in this edition of The Agenda.

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George Osodi's photo project, Oil RichNiger Delta, and the resulting book of stunning pictures, DeltaNigeria -- The Rape of Paradise brought attention to the environmental problems in the area and made Osodi one of Nigeria's most sought-after photographers.
"I think it's my responsibility as the man with the camera to find a way to represent this [situation], so that it becomes appealing to whoever sees it," explains Osodi. "At first sight you're like, 'what a beauty', but then behind it is a huge Armageddon. It'slike hell on earth."
This film follows Osodi as he continues to document the devastating effects of oil spills in the wetland region and as he tackles his latest project, about Nigeria's traditional Monarchs.
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George Osodi's photo project, Oil RichNiger Delta, and the resulting book of stunning pictures, DeltaNigeria -- The Rape of Paradise brought attention to the environmental problems in the area and made Osodi one of Nigeria's most sought-after photographers.
"I think it's my responsibility as the man with the camera to find a way to represent this [situation], so that it becomes appealing to whoever sees it," explains Osodi. "At first sight you're like, 'what a beauty', but then behind it is a huge Armageddon. It'slike hell on earth."
This film follows Osodi as he continues to document the devastating effects of oil spills in the wetland region and as he tackles his latest project, about Nigeria's traditional Monarchs.
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Oil spills: who's to blame?

The PowerPolitics project has created new development education materials to meet this need, working closely with five schools in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City and partnering with two schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Pupils and teachers have been at the heart of developing the new materials, creating films and comic strips to bring to life the differences and similarities in their day to day lives, and to provoke debate and discussion about the opportunities and challenges that living alongside the oil and gas industry can bring.
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The film 'Oil Spills: who's to blame?' Features SolaAbulu, Shell's International Relations Manager for Nigeria, who flew in especially from The Hague to feature in a Question Time style debate that pupils from Ellon Academy arranged as part of theirPower Politics workshop. In Ellon we worked with a group of S2 Modern Studies pupils, to try and unpick issues of governance and corporate social responsibility in the Niger Delta. She is followed by a short piece from John Campbell, a member of the WEA's Tea and Talk group, discussing his time working offshore in Scotland and West Africa and how different the two operating environments were. The final speaker is Chinotu George, a Nigerian student who is doing a PhD in geology at Aberdeen University. He and other members of the Nigerian ResearchGroup at the Centre for Sustainable International Development, Aberdeen University, participated in the community strand of the project. We wanted to gather first-hand reports of how life in Scotland and Nigeria differed, and how oil had affected the different countries.
Several Nigerian students shared their insights, and these have formed the basis for several of the Power Politics films.

A group of more than 40,000 Nigerian villagers are appealing against a UK High Court ruling over their case against Royal Dutch Shell for oil spills. In January the villagers were told to sue the oil giant's Nigerian subsidiary in the West African country but they say their chances of getting justice and compensation are greater in the UK. We speak to King of Ogale, NigeriaHis Royal Highness Emere GodwinBebe Okpabi.
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THIS WEEK: Nigeria's permanent oil slick

Presentation: Derek Thomson. Editorial team: JulienPain, SophiePilgrim, Ségolène Malterre, Tatiana El Khoury.
STORY 1 : NIGERIA
We start with oil spills... Not the latest one in the Gulf of Mexico - but the regular spills that take place in West Africa, in the Niger delta... where they've been happening for nearly 50 years. The biggest foreign oil company in the region is Shell. They say 90 percent of the spills come from sabotage by local guerrilla groups. But that's not what our Observer says.
Observer : Nnimmo Bassey.
STORY 2 : UNITED STATESNext we go to the United States, the hot and dry southwest. It's summer, meaning wildfire season. Our next Observer had the bad luck to live just a few hundred meters from one of the fires, probably started by a careless camper.
Observer : Charlie McCallie.
STORY 3 : LEBANON
Now to Beirut, Lebanon. It's a cosmopolitan city... When people get together, they'll say "Hi.. kifak? ça va?" Hello in three different languages. So does this mean their beautiful Arabic is in danger? That's what our Observer says. We head to the Lebanese capital.
Observer : Suzanne Talhouk, a language activist.

West Africa - Overfishing

Across the world fish stocks are in decline. 90% of all commercial stocks are now overexploited or fully exploited and the pressure from the fishing industry is increasing. West Africa is facing a crisis, fish stocks are in free fall. The livelihood of generations to come will depend on the fish of these oceans.

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Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets
Two million...

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets

Total wins IOC tender as U.S. oil displaces Nigerian crude in various markets
Two million more barrels of West African oil are expected to sail to India as part of an IOC tender while U.S. crude appears to be displacing Nigerian crude in several markets, Reuters reports. Total won a tender to supply India’s IOC with oil loading April 1-10. The company was likely to supply a 2 million barrel VLCC, but the grades included were not immediately clear. Results of a tender from Indonesia’s Pertamina for oil to be delivered in May/June were expected on Friday. Nigerian cargoes r...

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Nigeria Dirty Oil Fact Trailer | VICE on HBO

VICE returns to the Niger Delta, the heart of Nigeria's oil production, to see the battle ...

SOUTH AFRICA: OIL SPILL & PENGUIN COLONY LATEST (2)

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An oil spill off South Africa's west coast is forcing the world's largest colony of African penguins to be temporarily moved from their homes.
Their destination is Cape Town, about 60 miles away, where hundreds
of volunteers are cleaning the penguins who were unlucky enough to get caught in the spill.
Conservation officials in the area have underlined the pressing need to protect the species from extinction.
This stunning South African coastline has been spoiled by an oil slick from a tanker that sank near Cape Town a week ago.
The penguins most at threat are those that nest on Dassen Island, a sandy, barren outcrop off South Africa's west coast.
Conservation officials say between three and six thousand penguins are being evacuated from Dassen Island's nature reserve .
The island is home to about 55-thousand African penguins.
This is a wildlife rescue on a massive scale.
Hundreds of volunteers have joined in the operation to remove the penguins from the danger zone.
Critics have condemned the oil spill as yet another example of human disregard for the ecosystem.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And really what we need now is that we need man to realize that this species has been hammered enough, we've got to now start working on the side of the species and ensure that it does actually survive into the next century."
SUPERCAPTION: Dr Ian Macdonald, Managing DirectorWWF
The birds are being placed in ventilated boxes so that they may be moved as quickly as possible.
Here the birds were being prepared to be shipped to the mainland.
They will then be trucked about 560 miles down the coast to this temporary site where they are being released.
Dassen Island Reserve Manager said that the rescue was concentrating its efforts on adult penguins in order to secure that the species breeds as soon as possible.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Unfortunately we having to leave the youngsters and its just from a conservation perspective we have to focus all our energy and resources on catching healthy adult birds which are going to return and start feeding immediately, and the population will hopefully be bought up over time much more quickly with the adult birds than if we had to wait three or four years for the juveniles or young birds to start breeding.
SUPERCAPTION: Anton Wolfaardt, Dassen Island Reserve Manager
There are plenty of ruffled feathers here but the penguins are in caring hands.
The penguins are expected to swim home in about eleven days.
Authorities hope that'll be enough time to clean up the spill from
a tanker, which sank near Cape Town last week.
The penguins may not like their temporary home but when they are returned to Dassen Island the birds will be able to swim and fish in the sea in safety.
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Shell Oil: Human rights go up in flames

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Gas flaring happens when oil is pumped out of the ground, producing gas. The gas is separated out and, in Nigeria, is usually burnt as waste. This practice, combined with numerous oil spills, has left communities in the Niger Delta with little option but to drink polluted water, eat contaminated fish, farm on spoiled land and breathe in air that smells of oil and gas. It also makes a mockery of Shells much-flaunted business principles.
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Oil workers in Nigeria give government 14 days to address their concerns

Workers from the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas have threatened to go on stri...

Oil workers in Nigeria give government 14 days to address their concerns

Workers from the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas have threatened to go on strike. They have given the government 14 days to address their concerns. Labour union leaders claim many workers still lack proper severance pay packages after being laid off. Nigeria is one of Africa's largest oil producers. From Abuja here's Sophia Adengo with more.
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Shell Oil - The Awful Truth

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Shell Nigeria is one of the largest oil producers in...

Shell Oil - The Awful Truth

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Shell Nigeria is one of the largest oil producers in the Royal Dutch/ShellGroup. 80% of the oil extraction in Nigeria is in the Niger Delta, the southeast region of the country. The Delta is home to many small minority ethnic groups, including the Ogoni, all of which suffer egregious exploitation by multinational oil companies, like Shell. Shell provides over 50% of the income keeping the Nigerian dictatorship in power.
Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook. Shell has done next to nothing to help Ogoni. By 1996, Shell employed only 88 Ogoni (0.0002% of the Ogoni population, and only 2% of Shell's employees in Nigeria). Ogoni villages have no clean water, electricity, abysmal health care, no jobs for displaced farmers and fisher persons and face the effects of unrestrained environmental molestation by Shell everyday.
Since Shell began drilling oil in Ogoniland in 1958, the people of Ogoniland have had pipelines built across their farmlands and in front of their homes, suffered endemic oil leaks from these very pipelines, been forced to live with the constant flaring of gas. This environmental assault has smothered land with oil, killed masses of fish and other aquatic life, and introduced devastating acid rain to the land of the Ogoni. For the Ogoni, a people dependent upon farming and fishing, the poisoning of the land and water has had devastating economic and health consequences. Shell claims to clean up its oil spills, but such "clean-ups" consist of techniques like burning the crude which results in a permanent layer of crusted oil metres thick and scooping oil into holes dug in surrounding earth.
Both Shell and the government admit that Shell contributes to the funding of the military in the Delta region. Under the auspices of "protecting" Shell from peaceful demonstrators in the village of Umeuchem (10 miles from Ogoni), the police killed 80 people, destroyed houses and vital crops. Shell conceded it twice paid the military for going to specific villages. Although it disputes that the purpose of these excursions was to quiet dissent, each of the military missions paid for by Shell resulted in Ogoni fatalities. Shell has also admitted purchasing weapons for the police force who guard its facilities, and there is growing suspicion that Shell funds a much greater portion of the military than previously admitted.
Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 8 were leaders of MOSOP, the Movement for Survival of the Ogoni People. As outspoken environmental and human rights activists, they declared that Shell was not welcome in Ogoniland. On November 10, 1995, they were hanged after a trial by a special military tribunal (whose decisions cannot be appealed) in the murder of four other Ogoni activists. The defendants' lawyers were harassed and denied access to their clients. Although none of them were near the town where the murders occurred, they were convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that many heads of state strongly condemned for a stunning lack of evidence, unmasked partiality towards the prosecution and the haste of the trial. The executions were carried out a mere eight days after the decision. Two witnesses against the MOSOP leaders admitted that Shell and the military bribed them to testify against Ken Saro-Wiwa with promises of money and jobs at Shell. Ken's final words before his execution were:
"The struggle continues!"

A Guide for Traveling to West Africa

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Megan Kronberg recently returned from a 2 1/2 year operation with the United States' Peace Corps. She was stationed primarily in Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation in West Africa (near neighbor of Niger and Ghana). Entrenched in the regional culture for so long, Megan has accumulated an impressive catalog of tips and recommendations for the average american planning on vacationing in this beautiful country.
In this lesson, Megan describes some of the more important customs of which to be aware, lists off some of the common mistakes americans make when arriving in Africa, and generally prepares the viewer for his/her future trip. This is a must for any first time visitor to Africa.
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Cabo Verde (Africa) Vacation Travel Video Guide

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Travel video about destination Cabo Verde.
Cape Verde is an exotic island world, an archipelago off the coast of West Africa it combines the flair of the Canaries with the charm of Africa. ExplorersChristopher Columbus and Vasco Ad Gama lay anchor there in order to replenish supplies and repair their ships. It was not until 1445 that the fifteen islands were discovered and consequently became a Portuguese colony. We begin in the north east of the islands, in Sal. Crystal blue sea and endless sandy beaches, islands of both wind and sunshine with a volcanic lunar landscape twenty five kilometres long and twelve kilometres wide. Sal owes its name and colonization to its once most important export of salt which was to be found in huge quantities. Baia Da Fontana, close to Palmeira, appears like a shady oasis with various green trees that provide welcome shelter from the heat and in the background the dominant Monte Leste volcano where the slopes reach down to the shore and the splendid rock pools of Buracona. Mindelo, situated on the island São Vicente, is considered to be the cultural centre of the archipelago in which typical Creole art has been preserved. Sparse, raw and untamed it is dominated by powerful, almost mystical mountains. Santo Antão is an island of mountains, wind and water and the second largest island of Cape Verde. Its most important route is a road over the high mountains. The views of the Paúl Valley take the breath away. A fairytale world of stone which looks truly surreal. Against the background of the scenery, clouds entangle themselves within the mountains and provide life-giving moisture. Each island is unique and possesses its own special charm. Cabo Verde - islands full of light and joie de vivre!

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St. Lucia Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia (4K 60fps)

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Floating like an emerald ...

St. Lucia Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia (4K 60fps)

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Floating like an emerald teardrop between the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea is the island nation of St Lucia.
For centuries the original Arawak and Carib made their homes around the islands northern bays. In the 1550s, the notorious buccaneer, Peg Leg Le Clerc, became the first European to settle here.
After the pirates came the plantations, and the bittersweet years of sugar and slavery. Between the 17th and 19th centuries, St Lucia was pulled back and forth between the French and British, before finally gaining her independence in 1979.
Right in the heart of the capital, Castries, the main square pays tribute to two of the island’s Nobel Prize winning sons. Just across from the park, visit the basilica, filled with murals that blend the colours and traditions of Africa, the Caribbean and the West.
At the Central Market, taste the fruits of this island’s volcanic soil, enjoy real St Lucian home cooking, and browse crafts made by local hands. The creation story continues at Eudovik’s ArtStudio, where master carvers transform tree roots into sensual works of art.
The sleepy French colonial town, Soufriere, is cradled by some of the island’s greatest natural treasures. Just a short boat ride away is one island’s finest resort beaches, Anse Chastanet. While nestled between the two volcanic spires of Gros and Petit Piton, is one of the west coast’s most secluded hideaways, Sugar Beach.

The Gambia - Trip to The Smiling Coast of Africa

Gambia is being chosen more often as a holiday destination due to its great weather and fantastic nature. This film is portraying what we did while visiting the Gambia for the first time. We where there for only a week but during that time we've managed to visit some cool places but more importantly meet a bunch of beautiful people.

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Travel guide - Africa tips and tricks

What to bring and think about when you go to Africa. Tips, tricks and advice from real Afr...

Travel guide - Africa tips and tricks

What to bring and think about when you go to Africa. Tips, tricks and advice from real Africa overland travelers. Check it out.Get inspired: Read more in our travel guide (http://travels.kilroy.eu/travel-guide)Get inspired: See our Africa adventures (http://travels.kilroy.eu/destinations/africa/adventure)

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5 Reasons you should visit Cabo Verde in West Africa! | How to travel better

Malawi (Africa) Vacation Travel Video Guide

Vacation travel video about destination Malawi in Africa.
Malawi is the unknown Africa in the south-east of the Continent. A wild country between sea and highlands, a land of contrasts with amazing green mountains and high plateaus but most of all, Lake Malawi.In the north west and on the border with Zambia is the thousand square kilometre Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve, home to more than two hundred elephants who, in small groups, visit the Kazuni SafariCamp on their way to the lake. In theLake Kazuni area there are many hippos and crocodiles which although rarely seen from the shore can certainly be heard at night. The location of the small town of Nkhata Bay is quite spectacular, a large, sheltered bay, accessible via a steep slope. Small boats transport the local people to various locations so that they can buy and sell, as there are hardly any roads around the lake. A restless, colourful and vibrant harbour town and the northernmost point which famous explorer Dr. David Livingstone reached on his historic voyage of discovery. Cichlids, the living jewels of Lake Malawi, are highly sought after among aquatic fish enthusiasts, the brightly coloured males achieving the highest prices. Provided with a good supply of oxygen and a light sedative in the water, once a month the fish are taken to the airport. The craggy rock scenery of Lake Malawi was not always below water. Only when the southern section of the East African Rift Valley filled with water did it become home to cichlids. On the extreme south east coast on the border with Mozambique is Mount Mulanje, a huge mountain range that formed during volcanic activity more than a hundred and thirty million years ago. At the foot of the mountain scenery grows one of the world’s finest varieties of tea. The Maravi Kingdom eventually became an independent country, Malawi, the warm and beating heart of Africa!
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How To Travel Within West Africa | 5 Tips

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Stealing Africa - Why Poverty?

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Rüschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Based on original research into public documents, the film describes the tax system employed by multinational companies in Africa.
Director Christoffer Guldbrandsen
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Oil Spills & Corruption In Nigeria

Lanre Suraj, Chairman of the Civil Society Network Against Corruption speaks to SaharaTV.

Turbulent world of Nigeria's downstream oil and gas sector

In this episode of Economic LifelinesNigeria we delve in to the often turbulent world of Nigeria's downstream oil and gas sector to uncover the potential economic impact of this segment of Nigeria's oil and gas industry.

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Zembla: Shell's dirty oil

Since the oil companies began their hunt for oil in Nigeria, there is an estimated 1.5 mil...

Zembla: Shell's dirty oil

Since the oil companies began their hunt for oil in Nigeria, there is an estimated 1.5 million tons of oil flown across farmland and into the marshes. That pollution continues unabated. The people want it finally stoped and direct their anger at Shell. The leading Dutch/British oil giant makes billions in profits, but is accused of sacrificing the environment and human rights. ZEMBLA went to the Niger Delta and saw the practices of Shell.
This episode is a rerun from Februari 2011.

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Expansion of Imperialist U.S. “War on Terror” in Africa Preceded Deadly Attacks in Niger & Somalia

https://democracynow.org - We look at the U.S. military presence in Africa and what happen...

shame illegal mines of zhuang nation in African

A voice of justice Zhuang people: a place called Serenade place, where so-called Zhuang and Han people went to illegal mining in Ghana, Africa and plunder of resources, destruction of the environment.
Zhuang generations is a national passion for environmental protection, such as the so-called Zhuang people, Han is simply bogus. Zhuang people in their own land, the pollution of the environment will be subject to various penalties and damage to the environment they are forced to destroy factories, and death often occurs because of environmental pollution caused.
Since their land is protected 30 million Zhuang people are unable to guarantee that no scum, those so-called Serenade Zhuang Zhuang is a disgrace, they must be cleaned out. Hope that all the countries of Africa, please go to clean up these Guangxi Zhuang people, especially the mining of these people, these people in Guangxi, China is identified as the perpetrators of the Zhuang people called on African countries to expel request these so-called Zhuang people, these mining company is basically a crime, please you confiscate their property and expel them out of your borders.

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How Sewage Treatment Works - Waste Water cleaning in Sewer System - Santander By Juan Gonzalo Angel

How Sewage Treatment Works - Waste Water cleaning in Sewer System - Santander By Juan Gonzalo Angel

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Giron - Santander ColombiaSewage treatment may also be referred to as wastewater treatment, although the latter is a broader term which can also be applied to purely industrial wastewater. For most cities, the sewer system will also carry a proportional of industrial effluent to the sewage treatment plant which has usually received pretreatment at the factories themselves to reduce the pollutant load. If the sewer system is a combined sewer then it will also carry urban runoff (stormwater) to the sewage treatment plant.
The total mass of organic matter (measured as biochemical oxygen demand) discharged to receiving water bodies is equal to the discharge concentration times the flow volume.
Sewage treatment is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater, primarily from household sewage. It includes physical, chemical, and biological processes to remove these contaminants and produce environmentally safe treated wastewater (or treated effluent). A by-product of sewage treatment is usually a semi-solid waste or slurry, called sewage sludge, that has to undergo further treatment before being suitable for disposal or land application.
Sewage collection and treatment is typically subject to local, state and federal regulations and standards.
Treating wastewater has the aim to produce an effluent that will do as little harm as possible when discharged to the surrounding environment, thereby preventing pollution compared to releasing untreated wastewater into the environment.[5]
Sewage treatment generally involves three stages, called primary, secondary and tertiary treatment.
Primary treatment consists of temporarily holding the sewage in a quiescent basin where heavy solids can settle to the bottom while oil, grease and lighter solids float to the surface. The settled and floating materials are removed and the remaining liquid may be discharged or subjected to secondary treatment. Some sewage treatment plants that are connected to a combined sewer system have a bypass arrangement after the primary treatment unit. This means that during very heavy rainfall events, the secondary and tertiary treatment systems can be bypassed to protect them from hydraulic overloading, and the mixture of sewage and stormwater only receives primary treatment.
Secondary treatment removes dissolved and suspended biological matter. Secondary treatment is typically performed by indigenous, water-borne micro-organisms in a managed habitat. Secondary treatment may require a separation process to remove the micro-organisms from the treated water prior to discharge or tertiary treatment.
Tertiary treatment is sometimes defined as anything more than primary and secondary treatment in order to allow rejection into a highly sensitive or fragile ecosystem (estuaries, low-flow rivers, coral reefs,...). Treated water is sometimes disinfected chemically or physically (for example, by lagoons and microfiltration) prior to discharge into a stream, river, bay, lagoon or wetland, or it can be used for the irrigation of a golf course, green way or park. If it is sufficiently clean, it can also be used for groundwater recharge or agricultural purposes.
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TalkingStickTV - Oronto Douglas - Drilling and Killing

Talk by Oronto Douglas, former attorney for Ken Saro-Wiwa, on the continueing brutality an...

Drills and Spills: The Rhetoric and Reality of Offshore Oil Resources

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Searching for peace in Nigeria's Delta region

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari today met leaders from the Niger Delta region with a ...

Searching for peace in Nigeria's Delta region

Nigeria's PresidentMuhammadu Buhari today met leaders from the Niger Delta region with a view to map out a path to peace that will stop the incessant attacks on oil production and transportation facilities that have cost the country billions of dollars over the last decade. CNBC Africa's Onyi Sunday spoke to Udengs Eradiri, President of the Ijaw Youth Council and discussed the prospect of lasting peace in the region after the talks.

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PIAC's full presentation on the management of petroleum revenues for 2016